Wednesday, 8 August 2012

A young man has been denied a place on a heart transplant center's list of eligible recipients due at least in part to autism


Twenty-three year old Paul Corby is in need of a heart transplant due to a congenital heart condition.  He was not recommended for the donor heart recipient list by Penn Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania "given his psychiatric issues, autism, the complexity of the process, multiple procedures and the unknown and unpredictable effect of steroids on behavior."  Read more about it at the strollerderby blog at blogs.babble.com here:
http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2012/08/07/family-young-man-denied-heart-transplant-because-hes-autistic/
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  1. Project 45P1315 August 2012 at 16:53

    This story has been picked up by the Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News. Read the story on philly.com here:
    http://articles.philly.com/2012-08-14/news/33201606_1_susan-brozena-transplant-evaluation-heart-transplant
    Read the story on abcnews.go.com here:
    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/autistic-man-denied-heart-transplant-upenn-hospital/story?id=17006152#.UCw196DvyWV

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  2. Project 45P1317 August 2012 at 08:17

    Paul Corby has now made it into the lead stories on cbsnews.com today here:
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57495173/mom-presses-for-heart-transplant-for-autistic-adult-son/

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