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Hepatitis C Positive Organ Donors — Coming Soon to a Transplant Center Near You
There’s one immutable fact in solid organ transplantation — the number of patients awaiting transplant exceeds the number of available organs.
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Hepatitis C Positive Organ Donors — Coming Soon to a Transplant Center Near You
There’s one immutable fact in solid organ transplantation — the number of patients awaiting transplant exceeds the number of available organs.
Continue reading...
Reuters Health
Organs from overdose-death donors a viable option for transplant
Last Updated: 2018-04-16
By Marilynn Larkin
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Transplantation with overdose-death donor (ODD) organs has increased dramatically in the U.S., with equivalent outcomes to non-ODD organs, and therefore these organs should not be routinely discarded, researchers in Maryland say.
"Most Americans know that the U.S. faces an epidemic of deaths due to drug overdose, and many are also aware that there is a critical shortage of organs available for transplant," Dr. Christine Durand of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore told Reuters Health.
"Perhaps less widely known is that today, more than one in every 10 deceased organ donors died from a drug overdose," she said by email.
"Patients who received transplants from these donors had excellent outcomes; patient survival and organ function were similar to cases when donors died due to trauma, and similar or better than cases when the donor died due to medical causes of death like heart attack or stroke," she added.
Dr. Durand and colleagues examined data from January 2000 to September 2017 on 138,565 deceased donors and 337,934 transplant recipients at 297 transplant centers in the U.S.
Last Updated: 2018-04-16
By Marilynn Larkin
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Transplantation with overdose-death donor (ODD) organs has increased dramatically in the U.S., with equivalent outcomes to non-ODD organs, and therefore these organs should not be routinely discarded, researchers in Maryland say.
"Most Americans know that the U.S. faces an epidemic of deaths due to drug overdose, and many are also aware that there is a critical shortage of organs available for transplant," Dr. Christine Durand of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore told Reuters Health.
"Perhaps less widely known is that today, more than one in every 10 deceased organ donors died from a drug overdose," she said by email.
"Patients who received transplants from these donors had excellent outcomes; patient survival and organ function were similar to cases when donors died due to trauma, and similar or better than cases when the donor died due to medical causes of death like heart attack or stroke," she added.
Dr. Durand and colleagues examined data from January 2000 to September 2017 on 138,565 deceased donors and 337,934 transplant recipients at 297 transplant centers in the U.S.
Continue reading: http://www.chronicliverdisease.org/reuters/article.cfm?article=20180416Other2030196131
Ann Intern Med 2018
Editorial |17 April 2018
Nearly 115 000 candidates currently await organ transplantation in the United States (mostly kidneys [81%] and livers [12%]) (1). Because of the profound organ shortage, many candidates awaiting transplant experience significant morbidity and mortality each year. In this issue, Durand and colleagues (2) review the use of overdose-death donor (ODD) organ transplants involving 138 565 deceased donors and 337 934 solid organ transplant recipients from 2000 to 2017. The study used the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, which includes U.S. national data collected by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). The authors found that ODD transplants increased 24-fold, from 149 in 2000 (1.1% of donors) to 3533 in 2016 (12.7% of donors). For the most part, outcomes with ODD organs were noninferior to those with organs from trauma-death donors (TDDs) and medical-death donors (MDDs). Compared with MDDs, ODDs were less likely to have hypertension, diabetes, or prior myocardial infarction but had slightly higher creatinine levels and were more likely to donate after circulatory death. Cold ischemic time of transplanted kidneys was similar across all donor types. In an adjusted analysis, recipients of ODD kidneys and livers had a lower risk for death than recipients of MDD organs and a similar risk for death and graft loss compared with recipients of TDD organs.
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