Dual-Donor Organ Exchange

Donor Organ Allocation

Purpose. Compare renal transplant long-term outcomes among recipients aged 60 years or older with those in younger patients. Patients and methods. We analyzed 103 transplants in recipients above 60 years of age for the influence of key factors related to the graft and patient. The results were compared with 1060 transplant recipients aged 18 to 59 years. Results. The mean ages were 62.93 and 40...

Donor Organ Management: Literature Review

Multi-Organ Exchange

Kidney exchange, where candidates with organ failure trade incompatible but willing donors, is a life-saving alternative to the deceased donor waitlist, which has inadequate supply to meet demand. While fielded kidney exchanges see huge benefit from altruistic kidney donors (who give an organ without a paired needy candidate), a significantly higher medical risk to the donor deters similar altr...

Who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ?

There is an increasing gap worldwide between the demand for and supply of kidneys for transplantation, and the situation in Canada is no exception. In most North American and European countries, the number of deceased-donor kidneys available for transplant is insufficient to meet the need. Among the measures that have been implemented to alleviate this shortage are (1) widening the eligibility ...

The organ donor crisis: the missed organ donor potential from the accident and emergency departments.

The critical shortage of cadaveric donor organs for transplant purposes is a worldwide concern. The disparity between the number of cadaveric organs donated for transplant purposes and those patients awaiting transplant operations continues to widen. This article reports on the findings of an audit of deaths undertaken in 10 accident and emergency (A&E) departments in North Thames region, UK. T...