Organ Donation and Utilization in the United States, 1997–2006
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Organ donation and utilization in the United States: 1998-2007.
Organ transplantation remains the only life-saving therapy for many patients with organ failure. Despite the work of the Organ Donation and Transplant Collaboratives, and the marked increases in deceased donors early in the effort, deceased donors only rose by 67 from 2006 and the number of living donors declined during the same time period. There continue to be increases in the use of organs f...
متن کاملOrgan donation and utilization in the United States, 1997-2006.
Deceased organ donation has increased rapidly since 2002, coinciding with implementation of the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative. The increase in donors has resulted in a corresponding increase in the numbers of kidney, liver, lung and intestinal transplants. While transplants for most organs have increased, discard and nonrecovery rates have not improved or have increased, resulting i...
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This article discusses issues directly related to the organ donation process, including donor consent, donor medical suitability, non-recovery of organs, organs recovered but not transplanted, expanded criteria donors (ECD), and donation after cardiac death (DCD). The findings and topics covered have important implications for how to evaluate and share best practices of organ donation as implem...
متن کاملOrgan donation and utilization in the United States, 1996-2005.
The success of clinical transplantation as a therapy for end-stage organ failure is limited by the availability of suitable organs for transplant. This article discusses continued efforts by the transplant community to collaboratively improve the organ supply. There were 7593 deceased organ donors in 2005. This represents an all-time high and a 6% increase over 2004. Increases were noted in dec...
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presented to The Society for Organ Sharing 2nd International Congress. Vancouver, BC, July 4–6, 1993.Nathan et al. 40American Journal of Transplantation 2003; 3 (Suppl. 4): 29–40
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Transplantation
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1600-6135,1600-6143
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02171.x