Organ Donation and Transplantation

BACKGROUND: The increasing shortfall between the number of patients who would benefit from liver transplantation and the availability of donor livers means that rationing has to occur. The processes of selection of patients for transplantation and for allocation of donor livers should be done according to ethical and,…

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• İSABEL RAİKA DURUSOY

Excessive operative blood transfusion has been correlated with an increased rate of infectious complications and lower survival rate after transplantation of the liver. Two hundred and five consecutive transplants of the liver, performed between January 1988 and December 1989, were studied retrospectively to determine…

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• TAHİR YAĞDI

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The purpose of this study was to assess outcomes of urological complications after kidney transplantation operation. Nine-hundred and sixty-five patients received a kidney transplant between 2000 and 2006. In total, 58 (6.01%) developed urological complications, including urinary leakage (n = 15, 1.55%), stenosis (n =…

No consensus exists about which ureterovesical anastomosis technique to use for kidney transplantation. The aim of this systematic review was to compare the existing techniques in relation to the risk of urological complications. All studies that compared ureterovesical anastomotic techniques in kidney transplantation…

BACKGROUND: Data on renal replacement therapy (RRT) for end-stage renal disease were collected by the European Renal Association (ERA) Registry via national and regional renal registries in Europe and countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. This article provides a summary of the 2019 ERA Registry Annual Report, inc…

This prospective, longitudinal cohort study investigated the effect of donating or receiving a kidney on quality of life and relationship dynamics. Forty donors and 35 recipients from two UK transplantation centres completed the World Health Organisation quality of life questionnaire (WHOQOL) with additional questionn…

BACKGROUND: The European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) Registry collects data on kidney replacement therapy (KRT) via national and regional renal registries in Europe and countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. This article summarizes the 2018 ERA-EDTA Registry Annual R…

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