A flexible procedure for multiple cadaveric organ procurement.

Organ Procurement from Deceased Donors and its Impact on Organ Transplantation in Iran during the First Ten Years of Cadaveric Transplantation

The Act of transplantation from deceased and dead-brain donors was ratified in the parliament in 2000. In the subsequent two years, few number of organs were procured from dead-brain patients and transplanted. Later on, a national network was established for organ procurement; units for recognizing brain death were established in Tehran and some other cities to provide the necessary infrastruct...

Worldwide Cadaveric Organ Donation Systems

book. Tehran: 2000. p. 23-28.9. Transplant Coordination manual, Manyalich M. TPM educational project. Barcelona (Spain): University of Barcelona; 2001. p. 11-23. 10. Transplant procurement Management, Manyalich M. Organization of Organ Donation and Role of Coordinators. Saudi Journal of Kidney Disease and Transplantation 1999: 175-182. 11. Japan Organ Transplant Network (JOTNW). Available f...

Critical Care in Kidney Transplantation

Almost 30 years have passed since the first serious attempts at cadaveric renal transplantation, which is now a common occurrence. Bv 1984. more than 60.000 renal transplants ha~ been pertormed. Although the surgical technique is now standardized. methods of immunosuppression have continued to change from body irradiation in the beginning (1,2). to 6-mercaptopurine (3). then azathioprine alone ...

Organ yield from deceased donors: initial experience of an organ procurement unit in Iran.

To promote organ transplantation in Iran, organ procurement from deceased donors should be supported. For this policy, some organ procurement units have been established in university hospitals. Further researches in these activities are warranted to better elucidate the role of cadaveric organ transplantation in Iran.We retrospectively studied deceased organ donation from June 2005 through Dec...

Worldwide cadaveric organ donation systems (transplant organ procurement).