Non heart-beating donors in England
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322008000100020Keywords:
Transplantation, Liver, Kidney, DonorsAbstract
When transplantation started all organs were retrieved from patients immediately after cardio-respiratory arrest, i.e. from nonheart-beating donors. After the recognition that death resulted from irreversible damage to the brainstem, organ retrieval rapidly switched to patients certified dead after brainstem testing. These heart-beating-donors have become the principal source of organs for transplantation for the last 30 years. The number of heart-beating-donors are declining and this is likely to continue, therefore cadaveric organs from non-heart-beating donor offers a large potential of resources for organ transplantation. The aim of this study is to examine clinical outcomes of non-heart-beating donors in the past 10 years in the UK as an way of decreasing pressure in the huge waiting list for organs transplantation.Downloads
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Published
2008-01-01
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Non heart-beating donors in England . (2008). Clinics, 63(1), 121-134. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322008000100020