Growth of residual renal tissue in response to loss of other renal tissue is termed as compensatory hypertrophy. The functional adaptation is characterized by an increase in GFR which began 2 weeks after unilateral nephrectomy due to growth of the remaining kidney. Although increases in total renal weight have been reported in 24 hours, the total increase of about 50% in mass following unilater...

The 2008 Guidelines for Gamete and Embryo Donation provide the latest recommendations for evaluation of potential sperm, oocyte, and embryo donors, incorporating recent information about optimal screening and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), genetic diseases, and psychological assessments. This revised document incorporates recent information from the U.S. Centers for Disease...

This guidance offers consensus opinion on the optimum management of non-heart-beating organ donation in adult critical care units. The guidance is not meant to dictate practice but rather to offer suggestions as to what might be considered reasonable practice. The following sections mainly relate to the medical aspects of non-heart-beating organ donation. Fuller guidance on other aspects of org...

OBJECTIVE For various reasons, people of Chinese (China, Hong Kong or Taiwan) and South Asian (Indian subcontinent) ancestry (the two largest ethnic minority groups in Ontario, Canada) may be less likely to register for deceased organ donation than the general public, and their families may be less likely to consent for deceased organ donation at the time of death. METHODS We conducted two po...

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Many U.S. states have passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit cross-state variation in the timing of such legislation to analyze its impact on organ donations by living and deceased persons, on measures of the quality of the transplants, and on the number o...

There is a growing shortage of size-matched organs and tissues for children. Although examples of substandard care are reported in the literature, there is no overview of the paediatric donation process. The aim of the study is to gain insight into the chain of events, practices and procedures in paediatric donation. Method; a survey of the 1990-2010 literature on paediatric organ and tissue do...

background: blood transfusion is one of the most crucial needs of the society in multiple diseases and injuries. the only source of blood is donation. students consist a large and healthy group who are able of providing a large number of blood donation, however, blood donation is rare amongst them. this study was conducted to evaluate students awareness and attitude towards blood donation in ke...

Tissue banks are critical to research efforts into the causes and treatment of many diseases. Biobanks are created from donated tissue but property concepts have not played a major role in understanding methods of the collection and use of tissue. Little work has been done to study the proprietary dimensions of these gifts primarily because of the influence of the res nullius rule. Instead, the...