ObjectivesA significant gap exists between people awaiting an organ transplant and organ
donors. The purpose of this study was to determine what percent of successful donors come …

Renal transplantation is the preferred treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease.
The current gold standard of kidney preservation for transplantation is static cold storage …

The chronic shortage of deceased kidney donors has led to increased utilization of donation
after cardiac death (DCD) kidneys, the majority of which are procured in a controlled setting …

Kidney transplantation is preferred for end-stage renal disease. The current gold standard
for kidney preservation is static cold storage (SCS) at 4° C. However, SCS contributes to …

Background. The greatest challenge facing transplantation today is how to increase the
number of organ donors. Patients with severe brain injury who are not brain-dead can …

Rationale: All US acute care hospitals must maintain protocols for recovering organs from
donors after circulatory determination of death (DCDD), but the numbers, types, and …

Background The disparity between the number of patients waiting for an organ transplant
and availability of donor organs increases each year in Canada. Donation after cardiac …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the potential effect of organ donation after circulatory death
(DCD) on the number of kidney and liver donors in a PICU. PATIENTS AND METHODS: All …

OBJECTIVES. A task force was convened to decide whether a donation after cardiac death
policy should be implemented at Children's Hospital Boston. As part of this process, we …

Pulsatile perfusion (PP) might be a cost‐effective cold preservation technique to reduce the
incidence of delayed graft function (DGF) in kidneys from deceased donors. With the aim to …