The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Deceased Donor Potential
Study, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, characterized the …

Context: Patients never declared brain dead may represent an additional source of donor
organs. Objective: To determine the number of likely brain dead potential donors who are …

Background Demographic factors and factors from donors' medical and social history
influence the number of organs transplanted per donor. The goal for organ procurement …

BACKGROUND: To increase the available pool of organ donors, Ontario introduced
donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD) in 2006. Other jurisdictions have …

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 …

Background Recently, several centers in the United States have begun performing donation
after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplants (HTs) in adults. We sought to characterize the …

PURPOSE: Organ demand exceeds availability of transplantable organs. Organ
procurement continues to suffer from failures to identify potential donors, inability to obtain …

Organ donation after brain death provides the most important source for deceased organs
for transplantation, both because of the number of potential organ donors that it makes …

Background Refinements in donor management have resulted in increased numbers and
quality of grafts after neurologic death. We hypothesize that the increased use of hormone …

Organ transplantation saves thousands of lives every year but the shortage of donors is a
major limiting factor to increase transplantation rates. To allow more patients to be …