Outcome of renal allografts from non-heart-beating donors with delayed graft function

Procurement of liver allografts from non-heart beating donors.

THE shortage of liver allografts continues to be a major limiting factor for the exploitation of liver transplantation. Although satisfactory function of allografts obtained from non-heart beating donors has been reported in kidneys I and livers,2.3 hepatic allografts have been procured almost exclusively from heart -beating donors. 4 •5 The purpose of this study was to determine the safety of ...

Non-heart beating donors.

BACKGROUND Several groups have demonstrated that non-heart beating donation is a viable source of organs for transplantation. However, the theoretically worse graft function and survival of the kidneys obtained from non-heart beating donors (NHBDs) is still a matter of debate that has led to consider them as marginal donors for kidney transplantation. METHODS In this report, we compare the ou...

Use of non-heart-beating donors in renal transplantation.

The rate of renal transplantation has plateaued and is now limited by the number of donor organs available. In the past all donor kidneys came from living donors or controlled non-heart beating donors. It was not until the introduction of brainstem death criteria that cadaveric heart beating donors became the main source. Recently, there has been renewed interest in non-heart beating donors, wh...

Non Heart-Beating Donors in England

When transplantation started all organs were retrieved from patients immediately after cardio-respiratory arrest, i.e. from non heart-beating donors. After the recognition that death resulted from irreversible damage to the brainstem, organ retrieval rapidly switched to patients certified dead after brainstem testing. These heart-beating-donors have become the principal source of organs for tra...

Prasad donors Liver transplantation from non - heart beating