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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Living donors"”.
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Nurses' perceptions of clinical competency and individualized care in relation to solid organ transplantation
… for solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, living donors, and their families while also exploring the relationships among nurse characteristics, TNC, and IC. Three hundred ninety-one participants, comprising U.S. nurses caring for SOT recipients, living donors, and their families, completed …
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Organ Donation in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Quality of Life of Living Liver Donors
… countries. Removing organs from deceased donors was prohibited in Japan until 1997.</p><p> Currently cadaveric organ donation remains minimal and, as a result, patients in need of heart transplantation must often pay for surgery performed abroad. One of the saddest sights on Japanese …
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Organ Donation in the United States
… for donor organs far exceeds the number of donors. Approximately 18 people in the United States die every day waiting for an organ transplant. The purpose of this capstone is to describe the demographic characteristics of organ donors, recipients and waitlist populations in the United …
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Understanding the Position of the Savior Sibling: How Can We Save Lives and Protect Savior Siblings?
… and using savior siblings as genetic material donors. In the past twenty years, use of savior siblings has increased when living donors cannot be located. Traditionally, a savior sibling is a child conceived to provide transplantable genetic material needed by another sibling. This thesis …
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A retrospective review with prospective follow up of renal function, blood pressure and proteinuria post living donor nephrectomy at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town South Africa
… of ESRD has been demonstrated when comparing donors to age matched healthy non-donors. There are no outcome data in Africa on long term donor renal function or mortality. Therefore, this study aimed to assess long term health complications in the living donor population and evaluate risk …
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Renal Transplant Survey: how standardised is a standard kidney transplant?
… 60 transplants per annum. Only 30% (9/30) use living donors in more than 50% of their surgeries. Most (53.3%) perfuse the kidneys both in the donor (in situ) and outside (ex situ or ex vivo). If no anatomic abnormalities were noted in open living donor nephrectomy, 63.3% would prefer to use the …
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Knowledge and attitudes of undergraduate nurses towards organ donation and transplantation in a selected campus of a college in the Eastern Cape
… with a small number (1.6%) registered as organ donors. Ethnicity and religion did not influence an individual's decision to donate his/her organs, which suggested that the decision was a personal one. There was no association between age group and willingness to donate a kidney to a relative, …
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Investigation of matching problems using constraint programming and optimisation methods
… matches patients in need of a kidney to willing living donors. Kidney transplant is the most effective treatment to cure end-stage renal disease, affecting one in every thousand European citizens. Chronic kidney disease is a life threatening health issue that affects millions of people worldwide. …
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Laparoscopic Living donor nephrectomy. Transperitoneal and Retroperitoneal Technique. Safety and efficacy
… been developed to implement the transplants from living donors, that have been shown to have the best outcomes. The laparoscopic technique for kidney donation has almost completely supersede the open surgery being associated with short convalescence time and increased quality of life for the donor …
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Fatores preditores de complicações após transplantes renais : análise estatística multivariada
O transplante renal é uma oportunidade de vida para pacientes em estadio final de doença renal. Muitos dos pacientes propostos para transplante renal, apresentam múltiplas comorbilidades, o que torna a sua abordagem um desafio. Por outro lado, o transplante renal exige que um conjunto de condições …
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Marginal donor characteristics and outcomes after liver transplantation
… and medical care mean a reduced pool of “ideal donors” and the population age is increasing rapidly over time. There is a growing need for donor livers as the number of critically unwell recipients awaiting liver transplantation increases. The extended criteria donor liver has been increasingly …