Sentences with phrase «deceased organ»

There is much demand for organs and a shortage of deceased organ donations.

Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UC San Francisco researchers and collaborators, a finding that could lead to an increase in the availability of kidneys for transplant.

«Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors improves organ function in kidney transplant: Finding could increase overall organ availability.»

(That has been a challenge for efforts to treat type 1 diabetes with received transplants of β cells from deceased organ donors.)

By passively cooling deceased organ donor body temperature by approximately two degrees from normal body temperature, researchers saw an overall nearly 40 percent increase in the successful function of donated kidneys after surgery.

«This is critical because the number of available deceased organ donors has been stagnant, but the demand has dramatically increased.

The researchers note that these data alone do not capture all potential deceased organ donors in the U.S., as the current definition of an eligible death excludes potential donors over age 70, and those classified as a «donation after cardiac death» donor, both of which broaden the pool of available donors.

While previous research shows that adult living donor liver transplantation is on the rise in the U.S., comprising nearly 10 % of liver transplants, the percentage of living donor liver transplantation is much higher than deceased organ transplants in Asian countries at 99 % in Japan, 66 % in Korea, and 37 % in Taiwan.

Freedman, B. I., et al. «Apolipoprotein L1 gene variants in deceased organ donors are associated with renal allograft failure.»

Canada - DONATE study protocol: a prospective national observational study of the medical management of deceased organ donors

Eventually a corneal transplant — most often from a deceased organ donor — is necessary.

The Cleveland Clinic said in a statement that the uterus came from a deceased organ donor.