Donor safety and preservation of donor health after living liver donation are of paramount importance. In addition, the preoperative mental state of a donor is an important factor in determining the psychological impact of donor hepatectomy. Thus, we aimed to explore the mental health status of living liver donors after hepatectomy. We enrolled 60 donors who were scheduled to undergo living don...

Donor-recipient age matching has been proposed as a means of improving overall outcomes in deceased donor renal transplantation. It was hypothesized that donor-recipient age matching would improve patient survival time in younger recipients while not adversely affecting patient survivals in older recipients because they seldom outlive their grafts. By use of data from United Network of Organ Sh...

Background The Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) is a quantitative evaluation of the quality of donor organs and is implemented in the US allocation system. This single-centre study investigates whether the implementation of the KDRI in our decision-making process to accept or decline an offered deceased donor kidney, increases our acceptance rate. Methods From April 2015 until December 2016, we...

Renal transplantation has profound improvements in mortality, morbidity, and overall quality of life compared to renal replacement therapy. This report aims to illustrate the use of ex-vivo partial nephrectomy in a patient with a renal angiomyolipoma prior to living donor transplantation. The surgical outcomes of the donor nephrectomy and recipient transplantation are reported with 2 years of f...

Skin grafting is the current gold standard for treatment of deeper burns. How patients appraise donor-site scar poorly investigated. The aim this study was to evaluate long-term patient-reported quality scars after split skin and identify possible predictors. A prospective cohort conducted. Patients were included in a Dutch burn centre during one year. Patient-reported their worst assessed at 1...

From the perspective of a potential kidney transplant recipient: • Kidney transplantation using either live or deceased donors is worthwhile for an individual with renal failure if it significantly improves their quality of life and/or long term survival. • The potential benefit of live donor transplantation needs to be weighed up against the likely outcome with the alternative options. For the...

BACKGROUND Debate continues about what split-thickness skin graft donor-site dressing provides the best outcomes for patients at the lowest cost. The goal of this systematic review was to determine which donor-site dressings are associated with the best outcomes for the following: pain, infection rate, healing quality, healing rate, quality of life, and cost. METHODS A comprehensive literatur...

Although controlled donation after circulatory determination of death (cDCDD) could increase the supply of donor lungs within the United States, the yield of lungs from cDCDD donors remains low compared with donation after neurologic determination of death (DNDD). To explore the reason for low lung yield from cDCDD donors, Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipient data were used to assess the...

In brain-dead donor resuscitation, hydroxyethyl starch (HES) use has been associated with presence of osmotic-nephrosis-like lesions in kidney transplant recipients. Our aim was to determine whether the presence of HES in protocol renal graft biopsies at three months (M3) after transplantation is associated with renal graft quality. According to the HES administered to the donor during the proc...

In 2006, derivation of the donor risk index (DRI) highlighted the importance of donor factors for successful liver transplantation. Over the last decade, the DRI has served as a useful metric of donor quality and has enhanced our understanding of donor factors and their impact upon recipients with hepatitis C virus, those with low Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score, and individuals ...