Brain-dead kidney donor: selection, care, and administration.

Clinical decision supports for brain-dead kidney allocation: a review study of requirements, challenges, and solutions

Introduction: With the change in the epidemiology of diseases, chronic kidney disease has shown a significant increase worldwide. Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment option to improve patient quality of life. The main challenge in benefiting from a brain-dead patient's kidney is the selection of a right recipient in limited time. The purpose of this study was to review the requireme...

Clinical decision supports for brain-dead kidney allocation: a review study of requirements, challenges, and solutions

Introduction: With the change in the epidemiology of diseases, chronic kidney disease has shown a significant increase worldwide. Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment option to improve patient quality of life. The main challenge in benefiting from a brain-dead patient's kidney is the selection of a right recipient in limited time. The purpose of this study was to review the requireme...

Brain death, cardiac death, and the dead donor rule.

Management of the heartbeating brain-dead organ donor.

The main factor limiting organ donation is the availability of suitable donors and organs. Currently, most transplants follow multiple organ retrieval from heartbeating brain-dead organ donors. However, brain death is often associated with marked physiological instability, which, if not managed, can lead to deterioration in organ function before retrieval. In some cases, this prevents successfu...

Brain dead donor kidneys are immunologically active: is intervention justified?

The improvement in the field of kidney transplantation, during the last decades, has brought kindey transplantation to the top of patient preference as the best kidney replacement therapy. The use of marginal kidney grafts, which are highly immunogenic has become common practice because of lack of kidney donors. Inflammatory activity in the kidneys after brain death is an ongoing phenomenon. Th...