In a very interesting study with a novel observation, which is in press in the AJT, the authors present an analysis of the impact of the extraction time of kidney (the time from beginning of surgery with aortic cross clamping and perfusion/cooling of the kidneys to removal of kidneys and placing them in ice on the back table). […]
This is a fascinating study with significant implications for preservation studies. The authors show that organ donors after brain death subjected to mild cooling had significantly less DGF than donors subjected to conventional normothermia before organ retrieval. In fact the DMC stopped the study on the basis that efficacy had been demonstrated before completion of […]
The HIV Organ Policy Equity Act (HOPE) passed the House of Representatives in the USA on November 12th and it is now ready to go to President Obama for his signature having been passed by the Senate a month or two ago. This will reverse the current legal ban in the USA which was enacted […]
This interesting cohort study has just been published in BMJ Open and suggests that the recipients of DCD livers after risk adjustment have twice the risk of graft loss and death within 3 years of transplantation than recipients of livers from DBD donors. However there is a considerable difference in outcomes between the seven UK transplant […]
This article is a single centre review from the National Liver Cancer Centre in Korea of their experience of living donor right hepatectomy between 2005 and 2011 and includes 300 consecutive living donors. The authors examine the data in three cohorts of 100 donors. The overall complication rate was 16% and there were no deaths. […]
The latest World Health Organization bulletin publishes an interview with Haibo Wang who is the Director of the China Organ Transplant Response System Research Centre for the Ministry of Health, a position he has held since 2011. He is interviewed by Fiona Fleck of the WHO and it is a very interesting interview, particularly with […]
Somehow or other I missed this very thoughtful editorial on the above subject which appeared in Lancet early in 2011, but better late than never! The editorial was stimulated by an announcement by the Minister of Health in the new Philippine government stating the ban on foreigners receiving transplants from Filipinos was to lifted and […]
In the latest CTS newsletter (November 1 2012) there is a very interesting analysis of the age of both donors and recipients over the last 25 years. This shows that the age of donors is steadily increasing with 31% of donors being greater than 60 years of age and 27% between 50 and 59 years […]
Facebook have recently teamed up with the NHS Organ Donation Campaign to allow Facebook users to register as organ donors through the site. Users will also be able to share their intentions with their family and friends through the site. The move allows NHS Blood and Transplant to reach a new audience through social media, […]