Donor selection for recipient safety

Personalized Donor-Recipient Matching for Organ Transplantation

Organ transplants can improve the life expectancy and quality of life for the recipient but carries the risk of serious post-operative complications, such as septic shock and organ rejection. The probability of a successful transplant depends in a very subtle fashion on compatibility between the donor and the recipient – but current medical practice is short of domain knowledge regarding the co...

Effect of donor/recipient body weight ratio, donor weight, recipient weight and donor age on kidney graft function in children.

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that supplementing a higher mass of renal parenchyma from adult donors, and their younger age, would improve graft function in paediatric recipients. METHODS We calculated estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR; Schwartz formula) and absolute glomerular filtration rate (absGFR) in 57 renal-grafted children (1995-2007) aged 3.1-17.9 years, weighing 12.9-85.0 kg, ...

O-20: Perception of Motherhood Among Donor Oocyte Recipient Women: A Phenomenological Study

Background: Despite the increased demand of donor oocyte treatment, little is known about the experience of donor oocyte recipient women and how they perceive motherhood especially in Iran, due to the cultural, social, and religious situation. The aim of this study is to recognize the recipient women

Donor Smoking Negatively Affects Donor and Recipient Renal Function following Living Donor Nephrectomy

Background. While tobacco use by a renal transplant recipient has been shown to negatively affect graft and patient survival, the effect of smoking on the part of the kidney donor remains unknown. Methods. 29 smoking donors (SD) and their recipients (SD-R) as well as 71 non-smoking donors (ND) and their recipients (ND-R) were retrospectively reviewed. Preoperative demographics and perioperative...

Donor selection for AML: do the KIR.