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Corneal Donor Material Selection
American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1978Histologic study of eyes used as donor material for corneal transplant revealed one instance of massive leukemic infiltration with leukemic keratic precipitates on the fellow eye. In another eye, microabscesses composed of acute and chronic inflammatory cells containing Crytococcus neoformans were present. In a third patient metastatic anaplastic cells
Z N, Zakov +3 more
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Donor selection and management
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 2009The scarcity of suitable donor organs continues to limit lung transplantation, resulting in long waiting times and significant mortality for those patients listed for transplant. Strategies to expand the donor pool can substantially lift donor lung utilization rates from historically low levels of less than 20% to rates greater than 50%.
Gregory I, Snell, Glen P, Westall
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Donor Selection and Management
Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2013This article reviews recent developments in the selection, assessment, and management of the potential lung donor, which aim to increase donor organ use. The scarcity of suitable donor organs continues to limit lung transplantation, but the situation is changing.
Gregory I, Snell +2 more
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Corneal Donor Material Selection
Ophthalmology, 1981The authors conducted the first long-range study to demonstrate possible negative effects on the recipients of corneal transplantation from donors who had died of a systemic malignancy or of chronic neurologic disease. The results are reported of a long-term retrospective analysis of 73 patients who received 86 grafts from donors with various systemic ...
M D, Wagoner +5 more
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DONOR HEART SELECTION: WYTHENSHAWE EXPERIENCE
Transplantation, 2004The decline in the number of suitable donor hearts has led to an increasing interest in the use of previously unacceptable donors. This study aimed to evaluate the outcome of recipients of donor hearts considered medically unsuitable for transplantation at this center that were used in other centers in the United Kingdom.Forty donor hearts (group 1 ...
Khasati, N. +5 more
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Donor selection for multiorgan transplantation
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 2021Purpose of review There is limited data and guidance on donor selection for multiorgan transplantation. In this article, we review the current Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network policy on multiorgan allocation and the ideal donor criteria for each specific organ, in order to provide a framework to guide donor ...
Stephanie, Hsiao, Kiran K, Khush
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Cadaveric donor selection and management
Respiratory Care Clinics, 2004While there is little doubt that proper donor selection is extremely important to achieve good outcomes from transplantation, there are only limited data regarding the current criteria utilized to select the "ideal donor". Importantly, there are not enough donor lungs available for all of those in need.
Sean M, Studer, Jonathan B, Orens
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[Donor selection. Marginal donors].
Revista espanola de cardiologia, 1996The number of heart transplant candidates has increased steadily in the past several years because of improved survival and sustantial decrease in the incidence of rejection and serious infections. Unfortunately the number of available donors was remained insufficient, the method of expanding the donors pool may be to liberate the criteria for an ...
S, Serrano-Fiz +2 more
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How understanding donor behavior should shape donor selection
Transfusion Medicine Reviews, 1999I N THE EPILOGUE of her wonderfully comprehens ive work detailing 10 years of research (1977 to 1987) into blood donor motivation, Piliavin states: "Since we began the research on which this book is based, the necessity for convincing some donors NOT to give has become a far more critical concern than issues of recruitment and retention." 1 There is ...
V, James, P E, Hewitt, J A, Barbara
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