VOA常速英语2007年-Live Kidney Donors Seen as Solution to Kidney S

By Carol Pearson
Washington
02 November 2007
 

World Health Organization statistics show kidneys are the most sought after donor¹ organs but there is a global shortage. Some countries have established national pairing programs for prospective² donors³ and recipients⁴. The United States does not has such a program yet, but one is being put together now. Hospitals are already pairing people successfully, for both the patient and the donor. VOA's Carol Pearson reports.

A press conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland after surgery that involved ten people. Five people needed a kidney and five people donated a kidney. The five-way swap⁵ was made last November [2006] at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

In the United States alone, more than 60,000 Americans are waiting for this surgery.

"Every year we list more and more people for a kidney transplant and that's because more and more people are developing kidney failure, more people are becoming candidates for a transplant," said transplant surgeon Dr. Dorry Segev, who participated in the swap.

Not everybody waiting for a kidney gets one in time. And doctors say kidney disease is on the rise around the world. Doctors have tried to convince more people to donate kidneys upon death, but Dr. Segev says what has happened instead is a huge increase in organs from live donors.

Dr. Jeffrey Veale recently spoke⁶ about a swap at the University of California in Los Angeles in which each patient had a relative willing to give them a kidney, but they did not match. So, the donors swapped⁷ recipients. He said, "Tiffany, which is right here, Tiffany wanted to give a kidney to her father, Kaz, but unfortunately, they weren't a match. And Jason, here is Jason right here behind me, wanted to give a kidney to his mother [his stepmother], and they were not a match."

Tiffany gave her kidney to Jason's stepmother and Jason gave his to Tiffany's father. Dr. Segev says matching donors is the only realistic way to solve the kidney shortage, though not all donors meet through pairing programs.

Jamie Howard was trying to sell a vacuum cleaner to Paul Sucher. He explianed, "I was a dialysis patient receiving dialysis three days a week and was in desperate need of a kidney." Howard responded, "I just felt moved to help if I could." Some people meet their donors in restaurants, where they work, at school, and on the internet.

Doctors say what is needed now is a national database for paired kidney donations.  Dr. Segeve added, "The bigger the pool we can gather for these sorts of paired donations, the more people are going to match and the more people we will be able to transplant."

And that means more lives saved.

1 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

2 prospective   

adj.预期的，未来的，前瞻性的

参考例句：

• The story should act as a warning to other prospective buyers.这篇报道应该对其他潜在的购买者起到警示作用。
• They have all these great activities for prospective freshmen.这会举办各种各样的活动来招待未来的新人。

3 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 recipients   

adj.接受的；受领的；容纳的；愿意接受的n.收件人；接受者；受领者；接受器

参考例句：

• The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者的姓名登在报上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The recipients of prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者名单登在报上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5 swap   

n.交换；vt.交换，用...作交易

参考例句：

• I will swap you my bicycle for your radio.我想拿我的自行车换你的收音机。
• This comic was a swap that I got from Nick.这本漫画书是我从尼克那里换来的。

6 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

7 swapped   

交换（工作）( swap的过去式和过去分词 )； 用…替换，把…换成，掉换（过来）

参考例句：

• I liked her coat and she liked mine, so we swapped. 我喜欢她的外套，她喜欢我的外套，于是我们就交换了。
• At half-time the manager swapped some of the players around. 经理在半场时把几名队员换下了场。