TO THE EDITOR: Knowledge of the deceased's wishes and the processes involved in requesting organ donation increases the likelihood of family consenting to donation. 1 Australian research has found that many people who register consent for organ donation do not discuss it with family members. 2 Others discuss their intentions with their family but choose not to register. Since the Australian Org...

MAIN PROBLEM There is an increasing presence of a population of British and Irish origin in southeastern Spain. HYPOTHESIS this population native from countries with higher rates of living kidney donation than Spain will be very much in favour of related living kidney donation. OBJECTIVE to analyse the attitude of this population subgroup towards living kidney donation. METHODS Between No...

In this controlled clinical study, we determined the serum and follicular fluid concentrations of the biologically active fractions of magnesium (Mg) and calcium (Ca) in 39 women undergoing controlled ovarian stimulation (COH) for in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryo transfer (ET). Serum levels of ionized Ca (Ca2+) and ionized Mg (Mg2+) were measured during day 3 of the IVF cycle, on the day of ...

One third of healthy willing living kidney donors are rejected due to ABO blood group incompatibility and donor specific antibody. This increases pre-transplant dialysis duration leading to increased morbidity and mortality on the kidney transplantation waiting list. Over the last decade kidney paired donation is most rapidly increased source of living kidney donors. In a kidney transplantation...

Introduction. To study the knowledge and attitude of a medical student doing internship with regards to organ donation. Methods. A total of 50 specially designed questionnaires were distributed among medical students doing internship at a medical college. Those who gave their consent to participate in the study were asked to fill out the questionnaire. Results. 86% gave their consent to partici...

BACKGROUND The availability of safe blood and blood products is a critical factor in improving health care. In Ethiopia, lack of voluntary blood donors is a major challenge. This could be due to low community knowledge, unfavorable attitude, and poor donation practice regarding voluntary blood donation. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess community knowledge, attitude, and practice regard...

BACKGROUND The teenage population has a more favourable attitude towards organ donation than other population groups. Teenagers represent the future of the community and their opinion directly affects other family members and friends. Therefore, teenagers who are in favour of donation become promoters of organ donation in their area of influence. Our aim was to determine the opinion and fears o...

The mechanism of substitution water exchange reactions in square planar trans-Pt[(NH(3))(2)T(H(2)O)](n+) complexes is studied (T = H(2)O, NH(3), OH(-), F(-), Cl(-), Br(-), H(2)S, CH(3)S(-), SCN(-), CN(-), PH(3), CO, CH(3)(-), H(-), C(2)H(4)). The trans effect is explained in terms of sigma-donation and pi-back-donation whose relative strengths are quantified by the changes of electron occupatio...

BACKGROUND The UK has implemented a national strategy for organ donation that includes a centrally coordinated network of specialist nurses in organ donation embedded in all intensive care units and a national organ retrieval service for deceased organ donors. We aimed to determine whether despite the national approach to donation there is significant regional variation in deceased donor kidney...