Organ Donation and Transplantation after Cardiac Death, 1st Edition – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: Organ Donation and Transplantation after Cardiac Death
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9780199217335
ISBN-10: 0199217335
Addition ISBN: 0191550957, 9780191550959
Author(s): David Talbot; Anthony D’Alessandro, Publisher: OUP Oxford
With the success of organ transplantation and the declining number of heart beating cadaver donors, the number of patients awaiting a transplant continues to rise. This means that alternative sources of donors have been sought, including donors after cardiac death. Such donors sustain rapid damage to their organs due to ischaemia, and as a consequence some organs do not work initially and some none at all. The proportion of such transplants has increased dramatically in recent years- 25% of kidney transplants in the UK were from such donors in 2006 highlighting how much progress has been made. Written by international experts, this book lays out the moral, legal and ethical restraints to using such donors for organ transplant together with the techniques that have been adopted to improve their outcome. The different approaches and results of renal transplant according to country are covered together with the procedures and outcomes adopted to use other organs, notably the liver and lungs.