Background Driven by disease trends, such as obesity and metabolic syndrome, that are
increasingly prevalent in the general population, we aimed to evaluate the comorbidities …

Objective: Many organ procurement organizations have implemented critical care end points
as donor management goals in efforts to increase organs transplanted per donor after …

Background Donor hearts and lungs are more susceptible to the inflammatory physiologic
changes that occur after brain death. Prior investigations have shown that protocolized …

Background: Organ transplantation has proven highly effective in the treatment of various
forms of end-stage organ failure. However, organ shortage is still the greatest challenge …

Background Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ
transplantation today. Use of more organs of marginal quality has been advocated to …

In 2011, the number of eligible deaths (death of a patient aged 70 years or younger who is
legally declared brain dead and does not exhibit any excluding factors) was 9023, a slight …

Organ transplantation often depends on obtaining functioning organs from a donor who has
recently died. This review presents a structured approach to management of the care of the …

BACKGROUND: Hormone replacement therapy increases the number and quality of grafts
recovered from brain-dead organ donors. Arginine vasopressin (AVP) has also been shown …

Background The shortage of organs is a limitation for transplantation, making the care of
potential organ donors an important issue. The present systematic review and meta-analysis …

Background There has been a remarkable increase in simultaneous liver and kidney
transplantations (SLK). As organ demand has increased, so has the use of donation after …