Brain-dead kidney donor: selection, care, and administration
Autor: | A R Luksza |
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Rok vydání: | 1979 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Cell Survival medicine.medical_treatment Oliguria Ischemia Urine Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation Diagnosis medicine Humans Transplantation Homologous Kidney transplantation Dialysis General Environmental Science Kidney Donor selection business.industry Graft Survival General Engineering Brain Organ Preservation General Medicine medicine.disease Kidney Transplantation Tissue Donors Surgery Transplantation medicine.anatomical_structure General Earth and Planetary Sciences Tissue Preservation medicine.symptom business Research Article |
Zdroj: | BMJ. 1:1316-1319 |
ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
Popis: | Over four and a half years a district general hospital provided 34 cadaveric kidneys for transplantation. All brain-dead patients were regarded as potential donors, flow charts being used to maintain circulation and urine formation and facilitate administration. With this system the time lapse between diagnosis of brain death and removal of kidneys ranged from three to six hours and ischaemia was minimised. It is concluded that adoption of the system by other hospitals of comparable size would result in enough good-quality kidneys to satisfy present needs, thus reducing the initial high failure rate and enabling more patients to be accepted for dialysis. |
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