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...

Objective: There are many studies on kidney transplant anesthesia, there is not enough data in the literature terms of intraoperative parameters according to donor type. In this study, we aimed compare hemodynamic adult patients who underwent living-donor and deceased-donor transplantation (KT). Material Methods: The KT were divided into 2 groups Recipients deceased included study as Group 1. A...

OBJECTIVES Beginning to do liver transplants in a developing country is challenging. We report on the first few liver transplants performed in Qatar and discuss future exceptions and challenges facing our program. MATERIALS AND METHODS The first liver transplant was performed in Qatar on December 6, 2011. Since starting the program, 4 deceased-donor liver transplants have been performed in Qa...

results of all participants, 104 patients (52%) were diagnosed with cmv infection. there was no significant difference between the two groups, with and without cmv infection, in terms of patient’s characteristics. the cmv infection, in patients receiving a transplanted organ from deceased donor, was significantly more prevalent than in those receiving kidney transplant from living donor (63% vs...

We read with great interest the article entitled “cadaver transplantation in recent era: is cadaveric graft survival similar to living kidney transplantation?” recently published in IJOTM by Simforoosh, et al [1]. The main message of this retrospective study is that one-year graft and patient survival rates in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) are similar to those of deceased donor kid...