PURPOSE Marginal grafts should be used more actively in Asian countries where deceased donor transplantation is unpopular. We modified a quantitative donor scoring system proposed by Nyberg and his colleagues and developed a donor scoring system in order to assess the quality of deceased donor grafts and their prognostic value as an initial effort to promote usage of marginal donors. MATERIAL...

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT) is often the only curative option for many patients with malignant and benign hematological stem cell disorders. However, some issues are still of concern regarding finding a donor like shrinking family sizes in many societies, underrepresentation of the ethnic minorities in the registries, genetic variability for some races, and signific...

Background & Aims: Renal transplantation is the best therapeutic option for End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The aim of this study was to determine the graft survival rate of renal transplantation in patients who have been transplanted from live donor in Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz, Iran. Methods: In a survival analysis study, organ survival rate after kidney transplantation from...

The chronic shortage of deceased kidney donors has led to increased utilization of donation after cardiac death (DCD) kidneys, the majority of which are procured in a controlled setting. The objective of this study is to evaluate transplantation outcomes from uncontrolled DCD (uDCD) donors and evaluate their utility as a source of donor kidneys. From January 1995 to December 2004, 75,865 kidney...

Recently, much more attention has been paid on application of elderly donor due to the shortage of organs. Although liver quality of elderly donors may be sub-optimal comparing with that from younger donors, primary non-function of a liver graft is a rare event. On the other hand, long-term graft and recipient survival for usage of elderly grafts has become a major concern and focus of research...

BACKGROUND As the demand for liver transplantation has become greater than the availability of donor livers, the criteria for donor selection or rejection are more important than ever before. In view of an increasing number of patients on the waiting list, some centres are expanding their donor pool by relaxing the criteria, such as by using organs from elderly (> 60 years) brainstem-dead donor...

OBJECTIVES We analyzed different donor characteristics to determine those that significantly affect patient and graft outcomes after kidney transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients who had received kidney transplants at our institution between 1990 and 2011 from deceased-donors. We tracked these patients until the end of 2014. Using univariate and mu...

Objective: This study aims to reveal the effects of cyanoacrylate application at recipient bed and donor site in free gingival graft surgery on dimensions, clinical healing parameters patient-based outcomes. 
 Methods: Free operations were conducted individuals who randomly assigned control or test groups. In group, was stabilized coated with cyanoacrylate. 6/0 polyvinylidene fluoride sutu...

This retrospective analysis of cytomegalovirus (CMV)-seropositive adult transplant recipients showed that CMV antigenemia occurred after transplantation in 10/10 (100%) recipients of unrelated cord blood, 17/39 (43%) recipients of a related matched donor graft, 16/23 (79%) recipients of an unrelated matched donor graft, and 8/12 (67%) recipients of a mismatched related donor graft. These result...