Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease and recipients of living kidney donors fare better than recipients of deceased donors. In view of the shortage of organ supply and the long waiting list, expansion of the living donor pool has been sought. Importantly, donor acceptance criteria must first and foremost be grounded in concerns for donor safety....

conclusions we found acceptable short-term survival in both groups; however, living donor recipients continue to have better long-term patient and graft survival rates. results although there were no significant differences in one-year survival rates of patient and graft between study groups, three-years survival rates of patient and graft were significantly longer in living donor kidney transp...

The increasing number of possible recipients for kidney transplantation and relatively unchanged number of organ donors has led to consideration of alternative strategies and expansion of deceased donor criteria in order to expand donor pool. Previously, kidneys from expanded criteria donors (ECD) were strongly underestimated because of the conventional opinion suggesting these kidneys to have ...

Background: Platelet utilization has increased much more than other components worldwide in last 2 decades. Single donor platelets (SDP) have several benefits over random donor platelets, therefore being preferred. However, stringent criteria of donor selection and therefore high rate of deferral are major limitations to availability of SDP. Aim: The present study was carried out to evaluate th...

Lung transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage pulmonary diseases. A limited donor supply has resulted in 4,000 patients on the waiting list. Currently, 10-20% of donor organs offered for transplantation are deemed suitable under the selection criteria, of which 15-25% fail due to primary graft dysfunction (PGD). This has spawned efforts to re-examine the current selection criter...