Kidney transplantation is considered the optimal therapy for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). It improves quality of life and survival less a financial burden in comparison to dialysis. However, there national shortage organ donors, which hinders success kidney can result long waiting times. The continued mismatch between donor supply demand has led exploration new avenues acquisition. This repo...

RENAL transplantation was a hot topic at the 60th European Renal Association (ERA) Congress 2023, which took place both virtually and in-person in Milan, Italy, between 15th–18th June. One such session saw experts transplant medicine, surgery, ethics deliver presentations on deceased donor kidney transplantation. Co-chaired by Marta Crespo, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, Christophe Mariat,...

Owing to the limited donor pool at transplant centers, grafts may be taken from marginal donors with congenital abnormalities, one of the most common of which is a fusion abnormality. Horseshoe kidneys may be transplanted to a single recipient en bloc or to 2 recipients after division. In our clinic, 3 grafts (1 obtained from a living donor and 2 from a deceased donor) were successfully transpl...

Children receive priority in the allocation of deceased donor kidneys for transplantation in the United States, but because allocation begins locally, geographic differences in population and organ supply may enable variation in pediatric access to transplantation. We assembled a cohort of 3764 individual listings for pediatric kidney transplantation in 2005-2010. For each donor service area, w...

IMPORTANCE The use of technically variant segmental grafts are key in offering transplantation to increase organ availability. OBJECTIVE To describe the use of segmental allograft in the current era of donor scarcity, minimizing vascular complications using innovative surgical techniques. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective study from August 2007 to August 2012 at a university h...

The deceased organ donor pool has been stagnant over the last 5 years and is unlikely to increase significantly in the coming years. As a result, organs are increasingly being transplanted from donors with extended criteria. The function of these organs is at particular risk for deterioration during the transplant process. Overall, there is a significant paucity of clinical trials in deceased o...

The annual number of liver transplantation (LT) in Korea has continuously increased, mainly due to the explosive rise in the number of living donor liver transplants (LDLT) (Fig. 1A) [1]. However, LT cannot keep pace with the increase in the size of the waiting list in Korea despite the recent gradual boost in deceased donor numbers (Fig. 1B) [1]. Therefore, expanding the liver donor pool has a...