Tag: Organ Donation

One-year patient and graft survival comparable to donation after brain death, with or without HCV infection

In a recent study, donors had initial drop in eGFR after nephrectomy, followed by lesser decline per year than nondonors

However, living kidney donors have higher rates of vertebral fractures

Risk for cancer transmission lower than thought, and long-term transplant outcomes favorable

Program would allow inmates to receive sentence reductions of 60 days to one year after donating organs or bone marrow

Decrease noted in transplants and in waitlist registrations for transplants compared with those expected

Procurement and transplant of stage 3 AKI kidneys has increased, but discard rate is still high

And risk for posttransplant death decreasing despite drug overdose, hepatitis C-positive donors contributing to donor risk

Between 2014 and 2021, 250 family voucher-based donations facilitated 573 total transplants