Heart Transplants
Research on Heart Transplants Published by Scientists at Ryerson University
Published in Blood Weekly, April 14th, 2011
2011 APR 14 -- Investigators publish new data in the report 'The obligation to say 'Thank you': heart transplant recipients' experience of writing to the donor family.' According to recent research published in the American Journal of Transplantation, "Transplant recipients are encouraged to write anonymous thank-you letters to the donor family. We prospectively explored heart transplant recipients' embodied responses to the 'obligation' to write a thank-you letter using audio/video-taped open-ended interviews (N=27)."
"Fifteen of the 19 participants, who wrote letters to the donor family, expressed or visually revealed significant distress about...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2011-04-14)
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