Presumed consent to organ donation looks increasingly unlikely to be a palatable option for increasing organ procurement in the UK following the publication of the report into events at Alder Hey and elsewhere. Yet, given that the alternative to increasing the number of cadaveric organs available is either to accept a greater number of live donations, or accept that people will continue to die ...

Cardiac transplantation has become limited by a critical shortage of suitable organs from brain-dead donors. Reports describing the successful clinical transplantation of hearts donated after circulatory death (DCD) have recently emerged. Hearts from DCD donors suffer significant ischemic injury prior to organ procurement; therefore, the traditional approach to the transplantation of hearts fro...

This Note argues that prisoners, whether executed or living, should not become organ donors. The introduction acknowledges the shortage of transplantable organs in the United States and the steps that have been taken to ameliorate the crisis. Part I discusses the procurement of organs from executed prisoners, beginning with a brief examination of China, a country where this type of procurement ...

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-KP) infections in solid organ transplant recipients are associated with high morbidity and mortality. We report a case of a fatal donor-derived CR-KP infection in a combined kidney-pancreas transplant. Given the short interval of time between donor hospitalization and organ procurement, information concerning the donor CR-KP positivity arrived only...

Th e historical introduction of two alternative (brain or circulatory) criteria of death was a medical necessity to fulfi ll the need for procurement of transplantable organs at the end of life. 2 , 3 Heart-beating organ procurement is performed on brain-dead donors. 3 However, worldwide practice of end-of-life organ donation and transplantation requires public acceptance of brain death as an a...

Hepatic steatosis is a commonly noticed and most prevalent condition among donated liver grafts. The pressing demand for organs and increased patient death rates while awaiting organ transplantation has led to the use of cadaveric livers with hepatic steatosis for transplantation. Recent data reported the use of steatotic liver grafts in 71% of cases (Noujaim et al., 2009). Moreover, to meet th...

SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN BELGIUM: HISTORYAND MILESTONES Belgium, a federal country of 11 million inhabitants (as of 2016), has been very active in the field of transplantation. Clinical transplantation activities were initiated in the early 1960s with the first, living and deceased, kidney transplantations. During these pioneering years, Belgium was recognized for carrying out the first d...

BACKGROUND Over 90% of the organs transplanted in China before 2010 were procured from prisoners. Although Chinese officials announced in December 2014 that the country would completely cease using organs harvested from prisoners, no regulatory adjustments or changes in China's organ donation laws followed. As a result, the use of prisoner organs remains legal in China if consent is obtained. ...