BACKGROUND The PatientsLikeMe Organ Transplants online community allows patients to share detailed health information for research. OBJECTIVES The objectives of our study were to describe and contrast data collected through an online community with the broader organ transplant population. METHODS Quantitative data were examined with respect to basic demographic characteristics and quantitat...

BACKGROUND The recovery of discarded human kidneys has increased in recent years and impels to use of unconventional organ preservation strategies that improve graft function. We report the first case of human kidneys histologically discarded and transplanted after hypothermic oxygenated perfusion (HOPE). CASE REPORT Marginal kidneys from a 78-year-old woman with brain death were declined by It...

Arguably the greatest challenge faced by the transplant community is the disparity between the number of persons waiting for a solid organ transplant and the finite supply of donor organs. For renal transplantation the gap between supply and demand has risen annually reflecting the increasing prevalence of end-stage renal disease versus the relatively static deceased donor organ pool. Maximisin...

The success of clinical transplantation as a therapy for end-stage organ failure is limited by the availability of suitable organs for transplant. This article discusses continued efforts by the transplant community to collaboratively improve the organ supply. There were 7593 deceased organ donors in 2005. This represents an all-time high and a 6% increase over 2004. Increases were noted in dec...

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OBJECTIVE Malignancy is the leading cause of death among heart-transplant recipients. There is a higher incidence of post-transplant malignancy in heart-transplant recipients than in kidney-transplant recipients. This study sought to assess the incidence of malignancy in heart-transplant recipients in Taiwan. METHODS This is a retrospective chart review. RESULTS From 1987 to 2008, 291 patie...

Organ transplant recipients are a growing and increasingly important group of immunocompromised hosts in whom invasive mycoses remain one of the most significant infectious complications. 1–3 Although candida infections occur more frequently, the highest mortality rate associated with fungal infections in transplant recipients is for Aspergillus spp. infections. 4 The last decade has witnessed ...

Haeun Lee, Jung Hwan Park, Jong-Won Tae Hyun Ban, Jaeseok Yang, Myoung Soo Kim, Chul Woo Byung Ha Chung, Korean Organ Transplantation Registry. J Transplant 2022;36:47. https://doi.org/10.4285/ATW2022.F-1621