background when using brain dead donors for organ donation, assessment of kidney function before the procedure is essential. objectives it would be ideal to find an early marker of viability of donor kidneys that is more accurate than creatinine. patients and methods the present study was conducted from march of 2011 to march of 2012, included 52 deceased donors. serum and urinary neutrophil ge...

Spasm of arterial and venous graft conduits can occur both during harvesting and after the graft is connected. Attempts to overcome spasm during harvesting by probing or hydraulic distension can cause structural damage to the graft, which may impair short- and long-term patency. After a coronary artery bypass graft is connected, spasm can cause major problems with myocardial perfusion. To selec...

in order to examine the effect of the quantity of nitrogen fertilizer and bush density on vegetative and productive function of henna medicinal plant (lawsonia inermis)  factorial experimentation in the form of block plan was carried in three stages in agriculture research center in south of kerman  province in corp of 2012. the first factor containing nitrogen fertilizer in 4 levels including ...

U M LTIORGAN harvesting for individual organ transplantation is well defined according to the principles of Starzl. However, some pancreatic transplant surgeons believe the pancreas should not suffer hyperperfusion as occurs in multiorgan harvesting. This is in conflict with the need of all donor organs for transplantation and specially when multivisceral transplantation is planned. We believe ...

PURPOSE To describe a technique for en bloc harvesting of the corpus cavernosum, cavernous artery and urethra from transplant organ donors and contraction-relaxation experiments with corpus cavernosum smooth muscle. MATERIALS AND METHODS The corpus cavernosum was dissected to the point of attachment with the crus penis. A 3 cm segment (corpus cavernosum and urethra) was isolated and placed in...

INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 1204 I. SOME DEFINITIONS AND NOMENCLATURE.............................................................. 1207 A. INITIAL STAGES OF EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT AND EMBRYONIC SOURCES FOR STEM CELLS ...........................................................................................

Harvesting trauma to the graft dramatically decreases survival after liver transplantation. Since activated Kupffer cells play a role in primary nonfunction, the purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that organ manipulation activates Kupffer cells. To mimic what occurs with donor hepatectomy, livers from Sprague-Dawley rats underwent dissection with or without gentle organ manipulati...

As THE NEED for extrarenal organs increases, surgeons normally responsible for the procurement and later use of kidneys will find themselves more frequently involved in the harvest of other organs, such as the liver. The procurement of kidneys in this country has become regionalized, whereas the transplantation of livers has remained geographically centralized to only a very few institutions. O...

The author describes a technique of performing bicaval/ double-lung heart transplantation including the evaluation, harvesting and conservation of the donated organ. Additionally, the regime of pre-operative immunosuppression, the techniques of myocardial protection, resection of the native heart and implantation of the donated organ are described. Descriptors: Heart transplantation, methods. T...