OBJECTIVE To determine the potential number of cadaver kidney donors by applying defined donor criteria to people dying in hospital. DESIGN Prospective study of all deaths occurring in 21 hospitals from 1 September 1988 to 31 August 1989. Questionnaires were administered to medical and nursing staff and families of potential donors aged 1-69. SETTING Acute care hospitals in Gwent, South Gla...

The kidney graft survival rate at the Belfast City Hospital has consistently exceeded 80% at two and three years since the transplant programme began in 1968. This graft survival rate compares very favourably with that of other centres and should mean a difference in graft survival for paired kidneys when one kidney is used for a Northern Ireland recipient and the other for a recipient 'outside...

BACKGROUND The growing shortage of cadaver kidneys, the limited possibilities to expand the living related donor pool and the good results obtained in our centre with poorly matched cadaver kidneys, led us in 1991 to begin accepting highly motivated, unrelated, living kidney donors who had a strong emotional bond with the recipients. METHODS Between 1 January 1991 and 1 January 1996, 46 poten...

purpose: to characterize the histopathologic, electron microscopic and confocal scan features of ahram mineral water (amw)-induced keratopathy in cadaver corneas. methods: seven cadaver globes were examined, five of which were exposed to amw from the corneal side for different durations (30 seconds, 3, 15, 30, and 60 minutes) and the other two were considered as controls. after performing confo...

• Time-series analyses were used to characterize internal temperature dynamics from different regions of decomposing remains. The chest region experienced the highest average temperatures, and mouth maximum temperatures. Differences in temperatures suggest location blowfly larvae be noted improve accuracy development estimates. decomposition vertebrates is controlled largely by external tempera...