Is having sex with other men a risk factor for transfusion-transmissible infections in male blood donors in Western countries?: a systematic review [PDF]
Background : Although increased prevalence of transfusion transmissible infections (TTI) among “men who have sex with men” (MSM) has been well documented, the exclusion of MSM as blood donors is contested.
Compernolle, Veerle +3 more
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Gender disparity in health-related quality of life and fatigue after living renal donation
Background The clinical outcome and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of living kidney donors is mostly not detrimental, but some donors experience impairment after donation. Gender-specific effects of living kidney donors was evaluated.
Claudia Sommerer +4 more
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First two cases of living related liver transplantation with complicated anatomy of blood vessels in Beijing [PDF]
Aim: Living related liver transplantation (LRLT) has been developed in response to the paediatric organ donor shortage. Though it has been succeeded in many centers worldwide, the safety of the donor is still a major concern, especially in donors with ...
Chen, CL +6 more
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Hand-assisted right laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy
PURPOSE: Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy has acquired an important role in the era of minimally invasive surgery. Laparoscopic harvesting of the right kidney is technically more challenging than that of the left kidney because of the short right ...
Anibal W. Branco +5 more
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Purpose: Until recently, it has been believed that donating a kidney not represents any risk for development of cardiovascular disease. However, a recent Norwegian epidemiological study suggests that kidney donors have an increased long-term risk of ...
Kjersti Benedicte Blom +16 more
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Objectives: despite the annual increase in living donors and the positive and negative implications following organ donation, this issue had become a significant challenge for donors. The present study aimed to analyze the experiences and views of living
R. S. Bahador +4 more
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Early complications after living donor nephrectomy: analysis of the Swiss Organ Living Donor Health Registry. [PDF]
We evaluated the prospectively collected data about the incidence of early peri- and postoperative complications, and potential risk factors for adverse outcomes after living kidney donation in Switzerland.
Binet, I. +7 more
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Hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy in a donor with triple renal vessels
Objective: Donor availability is an important limiting factor in renal transplant programs; consequently, it is important to be able to use every vital organ independent of the vascular anatomy.
Anibal Wood Branco +2 more
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Use of Living Donors for Renal Homotransplantation [PDF]
The procedure is described which is followed at the University of Colorado Medical Center for the selection and evaluation of living donors for renal homotransplantation.
Brittain, RS +5 more
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Donor safety in living donor liver transplantation: a single-center analysis of 300 cases. [PDF]
AIM: To evaluate the safety to donors of living-donor liver transplantation. METHODS: This study included 300 consecutive living liver tissue donors who underwent operations at our center from July 2002 to December 2012. We evaluated the safety of donors
Jianyong Lei, Lunan Yan, Wentao Wang
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