| News From Transplant Week of March 25, 2001 / Vol. 2 No. 12 |
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Beth Israel Deaconess Suspends Liver Transplant Program |
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The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has suspended its liver transplant program pending an intensive review after five of its most recent 22 patients died, according to hospital officials. The hospital said it has begun assembling a team of "active surgeons and anesthesiologists from established national transplant programs" to review its liver program. Nancy Ridley, assistant state commissioner of public health, said her department also will probably assemble its own out-of-state specialists to review the Beth Israel program. Beth Israel Deaconess said it intended to "continue our active recruitment of surgeons to join the liver transplant surgery program." The Beth Israel liver program suffered a major blow in 1999 when its surgeons led by Dr. Roger Jenkins switched their affiliation to the Lahey Clinic. Beth Israel reopened its program last year with a new team headed by Dr. Maureen Martin. Meanwhile,
with the liver transplant program now closed at Beth Israel Deaconess,
the Boston Children's Hospital said it was temporarily switching
its affiliation to the Lahey Clinic. Other Sources: Boston Globe, AP |
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