On 6 January 2004, the Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA) was amended to allow more Singaporeans to benefit from organ donation. The main amendments to HOTA were (a) to extend HOTA beyond kidneys to include livers, hearts and corneas; (b) to extend HOTA beyond deaths due to accidents to include all causes of deaths; and (c) to extend HOTA beyond cadaveric organ donation to also regulate living d...

In September 2019, a two-day workshop ahead of the Southern African Transplantation Society congress brought together South champions for organ donation and leaders from International Organ Donation Procurement (ISODP) at high-level focused on creating national strategy roadmap to improve in Africa. The full report is available via supplementary materials Journal Nephrology website.

More than 29 countries have membership of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT), and collectively these countries have a population > 600 million. These include all Arab countries, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and countries of central Asia. There are common features of organ transplantation in the Middle East countries that include inadequate preventive medicine, uneven health in...

All potentially transplantable organs are not created equally. Even among organs currently used for transplantation, there exists a wide spectrum of quality. Donor risk factors can account for as much as a twenty-percent absolute difference in post-transplant survival. Thus, in some cases, actual receipt of a transplant matters less than the quality of organ received. Organ quality might compli...

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 ...

The growing incidence of end stage renal disease along with advances of the past 40 years that have improved the success rate of kidney transplantation have created an unprecedented demand for kidney transplant. Yet, certain racial and ethnic groups and women consistently have longer waiting times and lower rates of transplantation which makes a review of the kidney procurement and transplantat...