Organ donation and transplantation after cardiac death /:

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 t...

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Weitere Verfasser: Talbot, David, MD, FRCS, D'Alessandro, Anthony M., Muiesan, Paolo
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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 recentyears- 25% of kidney transplants in the UK were from such donors in 2006 highlighting how much progress has been made. W.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191550959
0191550957
0191768537
9780191768538
9786613892706
661389270X

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