Background: Organ transplant is considered the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage organ disorders. This process improves recipient’s longevity and quality of life. However, organ shortage for transplantation has remained an unresolved global issue. One of the primary sources of organ donation is brain-dead bodies. The most important factor that impedes the success of donation is la...

Organ donation is one of the most remarkable and dramatic therapeutic advances in medicine during the past 60 years. Expansion of Organ donation has been compelled many countries to legislate about this subject. In our country, Iran, because our acts are based on Islamic jurisprudence it is necessary to study about organ donation in view of jurisprudence. For example the 32th verses of Maedeh S...

Introduction: Brain death and organ donation are important issues. Problems involving logistics, ethical issues, personal resistance, and legal difficulties will probably always limit the number of available donors.The aim of this article to review brain death and organ donation and various factors related to success of this in IRAN. Method: A systemic review was performed. We searched the p...

Introduction: Organ donation is a social action that is based on the individual’s decision in time of life or Family consent at the time of brain death. The present study aimed to investigate the Factors Affecting Tendency to Body Organ Donation. Methods and Materials: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 330 employees of a military university in 2017. Data were collec...

Nowadays, organ transplant is an inevitable necessity for patients in need who other medical treatments don’t work for them. Nevertheless, it has become one of the major challenges of societies to find transplantable organs in order to bring patients in need back to society and their families. The statistics points out that in the year 2017, despite the issuance of the four million organ donati...

Nowadays, transplantation is the final treatment for the patients with end-stage organ dysfunction. Considering the importance of the organ donation and the important role of teachers in raising the knowledge and attitude of a large group of people, the present study aimed to determine the level of knowledge and the attitudes of the teachers in Sanandaj regarding organ donation. This study was ...