PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between donor factors and 5-year corneal graft survival in the Cornea Donor Study. METHODS Donor corneas met criteria established by the Eye Bank Association of America, had an endothelial cell density of 2300 to 3300/mm, and were determined to be of good to excellent quality by the eye banks. Donor corneas were assigned using a...

AIM To evaluate and compare the outcomes of kidney transplant (KT) from deceased donors among standard criteria, acute kidney injury (AKI) and expanded criteria donors (ECDs). METHODS This retrospective study included 111 deceased donor kidney transplant recipients (DDKT). Deceased donors were classified as standard criteria donor (SCD), AKI donor and ECD. AKI was diagnosed and classified bas...

Donor origin of epithelial intestinal cells has been studied in animals and humans after transplantation and has been used as evidence of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) plasticity. However, in the human gastrointestinal tract, no study used X- or Y-chromosome detection by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) coupled with immunologic stainings to characterize cell types on the same tissue se...

The number of patients awaiting lung transplantation (LT) and waiting time for surgery is increasing. In Australia, LT rates are 4. 6/million population/yr, which despite low organ donation rates, are the highest published in the world. The Australian organ allocation system allows identification of marginal donors and therapeutic manipulation where appropriate. This study aims to assess the im...

Half life appears to be the best way to give the patient a general understanding of how long their transplant may last. The graft half life for deceased donor transplants has increased from 6.6 years in 1989 to 8.8 years by 2005. Significant progress has also been made in high risk transplants where graft half life has improved from 3 years in 1989 to 6.4 years in 2005 for expanded criteria don...

A number of strategies have been advocated to increase the number of lung donors including: 1) improvement in donor resuscitation; 2) better methods of lung preservation; 3) extension of the lung donor selection criteria; 4) development of a living-related lung donor programme; and 5) utilisation of nonheart beating donors. Other strategies such as the split-lung technique and techniques of lun...

Transplantation is an effective, life-prolonging treatment for organ failure. Demand has steadily increased over the past decade, creating a shortage in the supply of organs. In addition, the number of deceased organ donors has reached a plateau. Living-donor transplantation is increasingly an option, influenced by favourable clinical outcomes and increased waiting times at most transplant cent...

In order to decrease the time on the deceased donor kidney wait list and to have more organs available, criteria for acceptable organs for transplant could be made less stringent. There are reports of successful recipient outcomes using kidney donors presenting with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). We report a unique circumstance where two patients received kidneys from the same de...

A shortage of donor organs is a major limitation to liver transplantation. Expansion of donor pool criteria to include patients with schistosomiasis diagnosed on liver biopsy might allow the allocation of more transplant livers. Schistosomiasis is a chronic parasitic disease affecting millions in endemic areas including sub-Sahara Africa that might lead to the development of granulomas as a res...