Process failures in the collection, screening and transplantation of donated organs in the U.S. have been responsible for at least 70 deaths and the development of 249 avoidable disease, the Finance Committee revealed in a report Wednesday.The full report, which was obtained by the , cites failures to identify diseases lying within organs that would cause issue for the next host, failures to properly match blood types and perfectly good-to-use organs being lost or discarded after mismanagement in the transport chain.These cases include a man in South Carolina who received transplanted lungs that were incompatible with his body - killing him the next day. On heart transplant patient in was told they would die in three years after it was discovered the heart they just received came from a person with brain cancer.
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