Organ Shortage: The Solutions: Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, 13–15 June 1994

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
How severe is organ shortage in Eurotransplant?....Pages 3-10
Organ shortage in France: Present status causes and the future....Pages 11-17
Is there a shortage of organs in Argentina?....Pages 19-26
How to increase the search for organs in Argentina within the respect of ethics....Pages 27-31
Effect of transplantation laws on organ procurement....Pages 33-39
Causes and socio-psychological dimensions in donation refusal....Pages 41-47
Disappointing rate of altruism in the population....Pages 49-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Organ procurement from non-heart-beating donors....Pages 55-60
Heart transplant from non-beating heart donor Past experience and report of one clinical case....Pages 61-66
Total body cooling for organ procurement....Pages 67-72
The living donor program in Scandinavia....Pages 73-76
Pancreas transplants from living related donors....Pages 77-83
Expanding the donor supply by using high risk donors: the use of pulsatile kidney perfusion for evaluation of high risk kidney donors....Pages 85-92
Relative effect of HLA matching and cold ischemia time....Pages 93-97
Are kidneys of very young donors suitable for transplantation?....Pages 99-102
Organ procurement from cadaveric children....Pages 103-109
Influence of donor age on the result of heart transplantation....Pages 111-119
Results of kidney transplantation using high risk donors....Pages 121-126
Anesthesia and resuscitation of the genetically related living donor in liver transplantation....Pages 127-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Potential donors and brain death epidemiology in the region of Madrid....Pages 135-142
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Logistics and management for improvement of multiorgan procurement from potential brain dead donors....Pages 143-159
Optimal use of cadaver kidneys for transplantation....Pages 161-165
Organ procurement in Spain: The national organization of transplants....Pages 167-177
Integrated ways to improve cadaveric organ donation....Pages 179-190
Training the transplant procurement management (TPM) coordinator....Pages 191-195
Surgical optimization of multi-organ procurement....Pages 197-205
The place of anatomy in liver transplantation: Multiplicity of possibilities and optimization of the utilization of cadaveric and living donors’ organs....Pages 207-212
Detection of Anti-HLA Class I IgG Antibodies by ELISA....Pages 213-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
The foundations of the right to be grafted....Pages 223-233
The graft survival curve: Ideology and rhetoric —Part II....Pages 235-241
The nature of the selection of candidates for cardiac transplant....Pages 243-252
Should we review the indications for transplants because of the shortage of organs?....Pages 253-260
Can we select candidates for combined kidney and heart or liver transplantation?....Pages 261-265
When to refer a patient for lung transplantation....Pages 267-275
Must the choice of surgical procedure for lung transplantation be guided by organ shortage?....Pages 277-280
Is cardiac transplantation justified in patients over 60 years of age?....Pages 281-286
The media and organ shortage....Pages 287-293
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
Gene therapy as an alternative to organ transplantation?....Pages 297-299
Xenochimerism and tolerance....Pages 301-308
Transgenic pigs and xenotransplantation....Pages 309-316
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
The endothelial cell as a target of xenogeneic hyperacute rejection....Pages 317-321
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
The Follow up of the French Grafts....Pages 327-327
Outcome of 490 Kidneys Procured from Brain Dead Donors in One Center....Pages 328-328
Organ Shortage and a Local Waiting List Allow a Local Kidney Allocation Policy to Ensure both Short Ischemia Time and Good HLA-A,B,DR Matching....Pages 329-329
France Transplant Regional Transplant Coordination Unit °3....Pages 330-330
The Organizative Transplant Model in Catalonia: The O.CAT.T....Pages 331-331
P. H. S. P. O.....Pages 332-332
Healthcare on the Worksite: A Strong Means of Communication to Promote Organ Donation....Pages 333-333
Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Living Donor Transplantation within Europe....Pages 334-334
A European Multicentre Study of Transplantation from Living Donors....Pages 335-335
Kidney Transplantation from Living Related Donors....Pages 336-336
Role of the Donor in the Post Transplant Renal Function....Pages 337-337
Older Living Related and Cadaveric Donors in Renal Transplantation....Pages 338-338
The Lack of Donor or Lack of Understanding and Cooperation Results of the Attitude Survey Among Public Medical and Nursing Profession....Pages 339-339
Jugular Oxymetry and Brain Death During Intensive Care of Comatose Patients....Pages 340-340
Modifications of UW Solution can Improve Metabolic and Cellular Protection of Hearts during Long Term Hypothermc Storage: Evaluation by P-31 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Biochemical Analyses....Pages 343-343
Hypophysis Thyroid Axis Disturbances in Human Brain Dead Donors....Pages 344-344
Normothermic Preservation of “Multiple Organ Blocks” with a New Perfluorooctyl Bromide Emulsion....Pages 345-345
Evaluation of a High Sodium - Low Potassium Cold-Storage Solution Using the Isolated Perfused Rat Kidney....Pages 346-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Organ Preservation by Vitrification....Pages 323-323
Immunological Factors Together with Ischaemia Result in Primary Non-Function of Cadaveric Kidney Grafts....Pages 348-348
The new technique of rapid en bloc removal of both kidneys in non-heart beating donors....Pages 349-349
The Anatomic Feasibility Studies on the Technique of Splitting-Liver Transplantation (SLT)....Pages 350-350
Combined Kidney Transplantation (Tx) with Heart, Liver or Pancreas....Pages 351-351
Combined Hepatic and Renal Transplantation in Primary Hyperoxaluria Type I: Report of Four Cases....Pages 352-352
HCV RNA in Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplantation....Pages 353-353
Indication for Transplant and Efficacy of Itraconazole in Aspergillus Fumigatus Infection Reconsidered....Pages 357-357
Out-center Dialysis and Renal Transplantation....Pages 358-358
Spontaneous Regression of a Metastatic Adenocarcinoma Transmittted by a Cadaver Kidney Graft: Support for “Immunotherapy”?....Pages 359-359
Posttransplant Malignant Lymphomas (PTL) Treated with Doxorubicin-Based Chemotherapy....Pages 360-360
Malignancies in Children with Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT)....Pages 361-361
Endothelial Activation in Xenografts’ Rejection: Evaluation of the Role of Heparan-Sulphate....Pages 362-362
Systemic IL-10 Release, After a Single Pre or Per Operative Large Dose of ATG-Fresenius in Human Kidney Transplantation....Pages 363-363
Prolongation of Skin Allograft Survival in Mice Following Administration of New 20-EPI Vitamin D3 Analogues....Pages 364-364
A model for self tolerance induction based on intrathymic anergy, reversible in the absence of the tolerogen....Pages 365-365
Breaking the Donor Age Barrier to Face the Organ Shortage in Liver Transplantion....Pages 366-366
Successful Transplantation of Pediatric Donor Kidneys in Adult Recipients....Pages 369-370
Public Campaign to Increase Donor Availability in a Regional Trasplant Center....Pages 371-371
Morphologic Findings in Baseline Renal Transplant Biopsies....Pages 372-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Systemic IL-10 Release, After a Single Pre or Per Operative Large Dose of ATG-FRESSENIUS in Human Kidney Transplantation....Pages 323-323
The feasibility of organ preservation at warmer temperatures....Pages 374-374
In Situ Preservation Without Traditional Hypothermia....Pages 375-375
Back Matter....Pages 376-376
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