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Barriers to the identification of possible organ donors among brain-injured patients admitted to intensive care units

open access: yesKorean Journal of Transplantation, 2023
Background : Improving organ donation rates requires better detection of possible organ donors, which in turn necessitates identifying barriers preventing the identification of possible organ donors.
Abdul Jabbar bin Ismail   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Endothelial keratoplasty with infant donor tissue

open access: yesClinical Ophthalmology, 2014
Here we report a case of endothelial keratoplasty with infant donor tissue obtained after brain death. A 52-year-old man with endothelial dysfunction of unknown cause in the right eye underwent non-Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (nDSAEK) with tissue from an infant donor (2 years).
Kobayashi, Akira   +4 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Tissue Banking: Relationship with Blood Donor and Organ Donor Card Status [PDF]

open access: yesISRN Urology, 2012
Understanding the relationships among altruistic health acts may serve to aid therapeutic research advances. In this paper, we report on the links between two such behaviours—donating blood and carrying an organ donor card—and willingness to donate urological tissue to a tissue bank.
McKenzie, Kenneth D.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Anticipated Organ Donation Approach Increases the Number of Organ Donors

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation
Objective: Deficiency of organs for transplantation is a significant public health issue. French learned societies accept intensive care unit admission for patients with catastrophic neurological prognosis to optimize organs prior to probable brain death.
Erwan d’Aranda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cellular Characteristics and Protein Signatures of Human Adipose Tissues from Donors With or Without Advanced Coronary Artery Disease

open access: yesBiomedicines
Background/Objectives: Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) exerts a paracrine effect on blood vessels and our objective was to understand PVAT molecular signatures related to cardiovascular disease.
Caitlin P. S. Ellis   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Commercialisation of the supply of organs for transplantation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Internationally, there is a shortage of organs available for organ donation. Human tissue and cells are becoming increasingly valuable as part of commercially valuable biotechnological research.
Thomas, Cordelia
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Paired and altruistic kidney donation in the UK: Algorithms and experimentation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We study the computational problem of identifying optimal sets of kidney exchanges in the UK. We show how to expand an integer programming-based formulation due to Roth et al.
Manlove, David, O'Malley, Gregg
core   +1 more source

La lipocalina asociada con la gelatinasa de neutrófilos como factor temprano de predicción de la función retardada del injerto renal

open access: yesBiomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2016
Introducción. La función retardada del injerto renal se presenta en 20 a 50 % de los trasplantes renales. Objetivo. Describir el comportamiento de la lipocalina urinaria asociada a la gelatinasa de neutrófilos en receptores de trasplante renal de donante
John Fredy Nieto-Ríos   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of COVID-19 on the number of transplants performed in Brazil during the pandemic. Current situation

open access: yesRevista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões, 2021
The intense use of resources to combat COVID-19 causes concern in the entire transplant community because, in addition to physical limitations such as ICU beds, lack of homogeneous treatment protocols and uncertainties about the effects of ...
MARCELO AUGUSTO FONTENELLE RIBEIRO JUNIOR   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Meeting the Shortage of Human Cells and Tissues: The Andalusian Quality Assurance Programme for Tissue Donation

open access: yesTransplant International
Background A quality assurance programme for the tissue donation process was launched in Andalusia in 2020 to facilitate the integration of tissue donation into end-of-life care, and to respond to the growing need for human tissue for therapeutic ...
Antonia José Alvarez-Marquez   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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