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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"living donor"”.
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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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Outflow Reconstruction using Cryopreserved Aortic Patch in Right Lobe Living Donor Liver Transplantation
INTRODUCTION: Living donor liver transplantation(LDLT) using the right lobe graft has widely been used to compensate for cadaveric organ shortage. To provide adequate functional volume in LDLT using the right lobe, a successful reconstruction of middle hepatic vein(MHV) is required. We describe …
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Duct-to-Duct Biliary Reconstructions and Complications in 100 Living Donor Liver Transplantation
… biliary reconstruction of right or left lobe living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) have been reported various in incidence up to 40 %. And that could result in serious morbidity or mortality to the recipient’s. We evaluated the risk factors for biliary complication and feasible surgical …
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Changes of Glomerular Filtration Rate of Donated and Remnant Kidneys in A Week after Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
PURPOSE: In living donor kidney transplantation, the initial function of donor's kidneys will be split into the function of the donor's remnant kidney and the recipient's implanted kidney. The question whether the function of these remnant and implanted kidneys will change after donation and …
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A review of living donor liver transplantation: why is regeneration more rapid in the recipient compared to the donor?
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is now well established and performed on a routine basis in many major centres around the world. LDLT is feasible because of the capacity of both the remnant donor liver and the transplanted partial liver to undergo liver regeneration. However it has been …
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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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An Ex Vivo Model For The Assessment Of Drug Toxicity On The Human Retina
… may be investigated. Methods: Post mortem and living donor human eyes were obtained, and the retinas dissected within 24h post mortem or 1h enucleation respectively. The ex vivo human retina was characterised using immunohistochemistry and QRT-PCR. The effect of multiple retintoxins was …
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Flesh yours, bones mine : the making of the biomedical subject in Turkey
… biomedical technologies, human body parts from living or dead donors have become commodities in the international networks of trade. This dissertation tries to understand religious, political and ethical discourses on this emerging economy and how it creates its subjects in Turkey. By drawing …
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Economic studies of chronic kidney disease
… despite the evident medical benefits of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), there is limited information about the economic impact of LDKT in the UK. The final chapter reviewed the evolution of the LDKT program in Northern Ireland, which currently leads the world in terms of …
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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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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 …