New act regulating human organ transplantation could facilitate organ donation

Organ donation and transplantation

Pediatric organ donation and transplantation.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There is increasing unmet need for solid organ donation. Alternative donor sources, such as donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD), are needed. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of DCDD on trends in pediatric organ donation and transplantation. METHODS Data were obtained from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network for ...

Organ donation, transplantation and religion.

Religious concerns may be an important reason why patients decline listing for a renal transplant. These issues may be equally, or even more, important when live donation is discussed. There is good reason to believe that religious concerns play a significant role much more often than clinicians and transplant teams believe. The issue is certainly further compounded by the fact that a few, if a...

Organ donation and transplantation in general practice.

Raising public awareness of organ donation is high on the national agenda, but the magnitude of the challenge is not well clarified. We investigated the attitudes and experience of general practitioners (GPs) regarding organ donation. A survey of 200 GPs working in Ireland revealed that a minority provided donor cards (38%) or displayed information regarding organ donation (28.2%). Although 81....

Policy statement--pediatric organ donation and transplantation.

Pediatric organ donation and organ transplantation can have a significant life-extending benefit to the young recipients of these organs and a high emotional impact on donor and recipient families. Pediatricians, pediatric medical specialists, and pediatric transplant surgeons need to be better acquainted with evolving national strategies that involve organ procurement and organ transplantation...