Evolution and current circumstances of heart transplants: global and Mexican perspective

PM Rangel-Ugarte, S Ramirez-Castañeda… - Current Problems in …, 2022 - Elsevier
A cardiac transplant is an irreplaceable alternative for patients with terminal chronic heart
failure refractive to treatment. Heart failure results from an imbalance between cardiac output …

Beyond Death: Exploring Cultural Perceptions in Cadaveric Organ Donation

H Karataş - OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Advancements in medicine introduced a relatively invented death into our lives: Brain Death.
It intermingles with our perceptions of classical death due to knowing the heart is beating …

[HTML][HTML] Brain Donation Decisions as Disease Specific Behaviors: An Elucidation of the Donation Process in the Context of Essential Tremor

D Iglesias-Hernandez, D Berry… - Tremor and Other …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Brain donation is a challenging process, comprising four sequential stages:(1) the brain
donation decision,(2) pre-mortem arrangements and follow up,(3) specimen collection and …

[HTML][HTML] A Critical Ethnographic Study of Families of Brain-Dead Patients: Their Experiences and Attitudes to Organ Donation

HA Lalegani, S Babaei, N Alimohammadi… - Iranian Journal of …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background: Despite the difficulty of making decisions providing facilitating mediators and
removing barriers to making decisions about choosing the right path to donate the organs of …

[PDF][PDF] Attitudes That Might Impact upon Donation after Brain Death in Intensive Care Unit Settings: A Systematic Review. Healthcare 2023, 11, 1857

A Alshammari, M Brown - 2023 - pureadmin.qub.ac.uk
Background: Organ donation and transplantation can save or improve the quality of life of
people worldwide. However, there are many challenges associated with organ donation, as …

Attitudes That Might Impact upon Donation after Brain Death in Intensive Care Unit Settings: A Systematic Review

A Alshammari, M Brown - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Organ donation and transplantation can save or improve the quality of life of
people worldwide. However, there are many challenges associated with organ donation, as …

Opinion survey on organ donation

GS Demarque, SJ Birnenbaum - SCT Proceedings in …, 2024 - proceedings.ageditor.ar
Background: In the field of contemporary medicine, receiving a transplanted organ can be
the last hope for many patients suffering from advanced-stage diseases. Despite its benefits …