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30/Jul/2025
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2025AO1598
Highlights ■ Logistical factors were not responsible for most organ rejections in the single national waiting list. ■ Refusal information was operator dependent, as the reason for refusal was generic in most cases. ■ It is possible to increase the use of organs offered to the National Transplant Center by converting more offers into transplants performed through a more detailed study of the reasons for refusal. ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate the outcomes and reasons for the refusal of organs offered […]
Keywords: Organ preservation; Organ transplantation; Refusal to participate; Tissue and organ procurement; Transplantation; Waiting lists
22/Nov/2021
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2021AO6770
ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the professionals´ perception of the use of deceased donor liver for transplantation, the reasons to decline them, and propose strategies to increase their use safely. Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive qualitative-quantitative study. Professionals working with liver transplantation answered a self-administered, structured, and electronic questionnaire comprising 17 questions distributed into four sessions (demographic factors, perception of use of organs, reasons for disposal, and measures to favor their usage). Results: A total of 42 professionals participated in […]
Keywords: Liver transplantation; Organ preservation; Perfusion/methods; Tissue and organ procurement
16/Sep/2020
16/Sep/2020
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2020AO5448
ABSTRACT Objective To characterize the processes of brain death diagnosis and organ donation in a reference trauma center. Methods Observational and cross-sectional study with patients notified with brain death at a reference trauma center. Data were obtained through the collection of medical records and brain death declaration forms. Results One hundred fity-nine patients were notified with brain death, mostly male (82.6%), young adults (97.61%) and victims of brain traumatic injury (93.7%). Median of the total time interval for the diagnosis […]
Keywords: Brain death; Brain injuries, traumatic; Tissue and organ procurement; Wound and injuries
24/Oct/2016
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082016RW3585
ABSTRACT Primary graft dysfunction is a multifactorial syndrome with great impact on liver transplantation outcomes. This review article was based on studies published between January 1980 and June 2015 and retrieved from PubMed database using the following search terms: “primary graft dysfunction”, “early allograft dysfunction”, “primary non-function” and “liver transplantation”. Graft dysfunction describes different grades of graft ischemia-reperfusion injury and can manifest as early allograft dysfunction or primary graft non-function, its most severe form. Donor-, surgery- and recipient-related factors have […]
Keywords: Donor selection; Liver transplantation; Primary graft dysfunction/diagnosis; Risk Factors; Tissue and organ procurement; Transplantation
01/Jan/2015
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082015RW3164
In 1958 Francis Moore described the orthotopic liver transplantation technique in dogs. In 1963, Starzl et al. performed the first liver transplantation. In the first five liver transplantations no patient survived more than 23 days. In 1967, stimulated by Calne who used antilymphocytic serum, Starzl began a successful series of liver transplantation. Until 1977, 200 liver transplantations were performed in the world. In that period, technical problems were overcome. Roy Calne, in 1979, used the first time cyclosporine in two […]
Keywords: Brazil; Immunosuppression; Liver cirrhosis; Liver transplantation/history; Organ preservation; Tissue and organ procurement; Tissue donors
01/Apr/2014
01/Apr/2014
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082014AO2555
Objective To define donors’ profile of an Organ and Tissue Procurement Center and compare the family consent for tissue donation before and after modification of the Donation Term. Methods A descriptive, documentary and quantitative study performed in an Organ and Tissue Procurement Center, analyzed 111 feasible donors’ charts in the period from March 13 to September 13, 2010 (1st period), and from September 14, 2010 to March 14, 2011 (2nd period), based on the modification date. Results The mean age […]
Keywords: Brain death; Informed consent; Tissue and organ procurement; Tissue donors; Tissue transplantation