Preemptive transplants are advisable in advanced stages of kidney disease. The clinical advantages of preemptive transplantation over dialysis are evident. Nevertheless, preemptive transplantations raise ethical concerns, particularly regarding the allocation of medical resources. The present article proposes some criteria for organ allocation policies regarding preemptive transplantations: cri...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this review was to describe the work that the Başkent University Faculty of Medicine has done to increase kidney donors' number in Turkey and also to discuss the major effects that donor-organ shortage is currently having worldwide. MATERIALS AND METHODS From 1975 through 2003, our transplantation team at Hacettepe University Hospital and later at the Başkent Universit...

BACKGROUND Kidney transplantation remains the most effective treatment for children with end-stage renal disease. We analysed data from the University of Heidelberg transplant programme to present our results on paediatric kidney transplantations over the past 35 years. METHODS From 1967 to 2003, 354 paediatric kidney transplantations were performed at the University of Heidelberg. Data were ...

Israel’s organ-transplantation history dates back to 1964, when the first kidney transplantation from a living related donor was performed. In 1965, the first kidney transplantation from a deceased donor was successfully accomplished. Currently six Israeli medical centers perform kidney, heart, lung, and liver transplantations. The Israel National Transplant Center (INTC) coordinates all donors...

In recent decade the number of organ, including kidney, transplantations both from dead and living donor has noticeably increased. Kidney transplantation is the gold standard of treatment of the patients at thermal chronic renal insufficiency stage [2]. In view of increasing numbers of patients with transplanted kidney, it is a compelling task to protect kidney transplant from chronic damage (r...

Donor-recipient ABO and/or HLA incompatibility used to lead to donor decline. Development of alternative transplantation programs enabled transplantation of incompatible couples. How did that influence couple characteristics? Between 2000 and 2014, 1232 living donor transplantations have been performed. In conventional and ABO-incompatible transplantation the willing donor becomes an actual don...

abstract hydatid cysts are endemic hooknoses in iran. it may involve various organs of body. liver is involved in 80% and lung in 10- 15%of cases. 25% of pulmonary hydatid cyst is bilateral. before any transplantations eradication of infection is necessary. in a 26-year old man with renal failure referred for kidney transplantation. on initial preoperative evaluation of this patient hydatid cys...

INTRODUCTION: The term ectopic kidney is used to describe a that found in place not its normal anatomic position while malrotation refers the abnormal orientation of kidney. These two are some congenital malformations predisposed embryogenesis.CASE: current findings were discovered during routine dissections Gross lab Human Anatomy Department University RwandaA left with relatively larger than ...