PURPOSE We evaluated unrelated living kidney donation in the United States and examined the characteristics of unrelated donor-recipient pairs. MATERIALS AND METHODS We accessed United Network for Organ Sharing files to identify adult living donor renal transplant recipients who received a transplant between 1997 and 2007. We evaluated factors associated with unrelated donation and compared a...

POPULATION 127 unrelated female and 118 unrelated male volunteer donors, Southwest China.

two hundred cases of renal transplantation from living donors are reported from shahid hashemi nejad medical'center in iran. there were 127 male and 73 female patients with 67% in the third and fourth decade of life. all patients received grafts from living donors with 1 14 cases of hla haploidentical, 55 cases of hla identical matches and 24 unrelated donors. one year patient and graft su...

BACKGROUND The shortage of living-related and cadaveric donors lead to living-unrelated kidney transplant in Iran. OBJECTIVE We conducted this study to determine the motivations for unrelated-living kidney donation in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran. METHODS After obtaining an informed written consent, unrelated-living kidney donors were interviewed by the authors by means of a standa...

Large registries of potential unrelated stem cell donors have been established in order to enable stem cell transplantation for patients without HLA-identical related donors. Donor search is complicated by the fact that the stored HLA information of many registered donors is incomplete. We carried out a project that was aimed to improve chances of patients with ongoing donor searches to find an...

from 1986 to 1996, 1020 renal transplants were performed at our center. the purposes of this study were. 1) to evaluate the patient and graft survival rates and 2) to see if some donors and recipient characteristics such as age, sex and relationship had any effects on graft survivals. 571 transplants were from living related donors (lrd) and 446 from living unrelated donors (lud). 65.9% of reci...

We treated 14 patients by transplantation of marrow from unrelated volunteer donors. Eight patients had severe aplastic anemia, 3 had chronic granulocytic leukemia, and 3 had Fanconi's anemia. The results are compared with those of a group of 14 similar patients transplanted concurrently from human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-mismatched family members: Sustained engraftment was achieved in 8 of 14 ...