Clara Elkayam, 86, from Kiryat Bialik, was admitted to Rambam Hospital in Haifa due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Despite doctors' efforts to save her, they were eventually forced to determine her death.
Elkayam's lungs were transplanted into the body of a 65-year-old man at the Sheba Medical Center. This is the first time that lungs have been transplanted in Israel from a donor at such an older age. Ideal lungs. Dr. Liran Levy, director of the Rehabilitation Service at Sheba Hospital: "In this case, we transplanted an adult donor lung that, apart from its advanced age, had no history of smoking and a completely normal lung function, and indeed the transplant recipient is progressing and recovering."
Eddie card,
Elkayam's liver was transplanted in a severely ill patient who had been waiting a long time for a transplant, in part due to having a rare blood type.
Prof. Nir Lubetzky, director of the Department of Liver, Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery at Ichilov Hospital: "When we received a message about the donation from an 86-year-old donor, we realized that this was an opportunity for him.
We used a new technology to improve the liver before the transplant.
The transplant process was normal and the liver began to function immediately.
The patient is now in the recovery stages. "
Dr. Tamar Ashkenazi, director of the National Transplant Center, said: “In recent years we have broken the donor age ceiling.
Age is no longer a criterion for us, but rather organ functions, as observed in laboratory tests and imaging.
"Whenever a candidate is found in a state of brain death at the age of 80, I turn to the implants and present them with his medical data, and they almost always agree to continue the process, and offer the family an organ donation."
Dr. Genia Mahmid, director of Rambam's neurosurgical intensive care unit, added: "Today, older people, aged 80 and over, can donate organs because their health is better thanks to exercise, proper nutrition and awareness of disease prevention."
Clara's family said: "Mother had an Eddie card. She was a person full of kindness, joy of life, human love. She lived outside the box, set precedents every day anew, and in a reality of distance and fear, she created encounters, love, closeness, joy and animals. "Infinite. When there was difficulty she always told us to breathe deeply. Her soul, her breathing, and her huge heart are a golden mark in this world and the next."
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