Assist devices: Machine preservation of extended criteria donors

Machine perfusion versus cold storage for preservation of kidneys from expanded criteria donors after brain death.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the possible effects of machine perfusion (MP) versus cold storage (CS) on delayed graft function (DGF) and early graft survival in expanded criteria donor kidneys (ECD). As part of the previously reported international randomized controlled trial 91 consecutive heart-beating deceased ECDs--defined according to the United Network of Organ Sharing definit...

Preimplantation Kidney Biopsies of Extended Criteria Donors Have a Heavier Inflammatory Burden Than Kidneys From Standard Criteria Donors

BACKGROUND Donors after brain death develop a systemic proinflammatory state that may predispose the kidneys to injury after transplantation. Because it is not known whether this inflammatory environment similarly affects the kidneys from expanded criteria donor (ECD) and standard criteria donors (SCD), we sought to evaluate differences in the gene expression of inflammatory cytokines in preimp...

Extended criteria donors: the case for liver procurement in donors with a central nervous system malignancy.

In the December issue of Liver Transplantation, Durand et al. extensively reviewed the issue of extended criteria donors in liver transplantation. They mentioned the problem of donors with a history of malignancy and recommended in Table 2 that donors with grade III/IV central nervous system (CNS) malignant tumors be rejected as the risk of malignancy transmission is estimated at 40%. This esti...

Verifying Extended Criteria for the Interoperability of Security Devices

In the next years, smart cards are going to become the main personal identification document in many nations. In particular, both Europe and United States are currently working to this aim. Therefore, tens of millions of smart cards, based on hardware devices provided by many different manufacturers, will be distributed all over the world, and used in particular to accomplish the security tasks...

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