BACKGROUND Limited data exist on the impact of living kidney donation on the donor-recipient relationship. Purpose of this study was to explore motivations to donate or accept a (living donor) kidney, whether expected relationship changes influence decision making and whether relationship changes are actually experienced. METHODS We conducted 6 focus groups in 47 of 114 invited individuals (4...

BACKGROUND Single-donor platelets (SDPs) are frequently preferred over pooled random-donor platelets (RDPs) to reduce donor exposures and the risk for virus transmission or HLA alloimmunization. Transfusion-associated virus-transmission risks have significantly decreased, which suggests that white cell reduction by filtration eliminates any difference in the risk of alloimmunization in transfus...

background: blood transfusion plays a great role in public health and the blood safety still has remained a main concern. hbv has been considered as one of the most prevalent blood borne infections. it is estimated that chronic hbv affects 350-400 million people worldwide. comprehensive knowledge about hbv has high importance in iran due to high number of blood dependent patients. material and ...

advances in nephrology and pediatric urology have increased the number of children who survive renal disease and become candidates for renal transplantation. ten years of experience in pediatric renal transplantation are reviewed to determine the rates of patient morbidity and graft survival. of the 450 renal transplantations performed in imam reza hospital (1989- 1999), fifty-one were done on ...

Donor criteria for liver grafts have been expanded because of organ shortage. Currently, no exact definitions for extended donor grafts have been established. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of donor-specific risk factors, independent of recipient characteristics. In collaboration with Eurotransplant and European Liver Transplant Register, solely donor-specific parameters were c...

OBJECTIVES To compare the effect of donor breast milk with infant formula in preterm infants. Separate comparisons with formula were made for donor breast milk that was: (1) given as a sole diet; (2) given as a supplement to mother's own breast milk; and (3) fortified with macronutrients and micronutrients. The main outcomes were death, necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), infection, growth and dev...