Revisiting Organ Donation – Voyage from Death, Donation, Transportation to Organ Transplantation

Organ donation and transplantation

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...

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 after cardiac death.

n engl j med 357;3 www.nejm.org july 19, 2007 209 the supply. In 2006, there were about 29,000 solid-organ transplantations; as of June 2007, there were about 97,000 people on waiting lists for organ transplantation. About three of every four organs that are transplanted are recovered from deceased donors. The most rapid increase in the rate of organ recovery from deceased persons has occurred ...

Factors influencing decisions on organ donation in brain death patients

Organ donation is an integral part of the health care system. Many patients who have had an accident or have undergone a progressive disease are in need of an organ transplant and if they do not receive the required organ they would die. It is important to know that the most important source of organ donation is the brain death patients. It is highly essential to determine the pivotal factors t...