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Dupuytren's contracture.

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According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), 3,404 Canadians were on a waiting list to receive an organ for transplant in 2012. Kidneys represented nearly two thirds of the organs needed for transplantation in this country. In 2012 alone, there were 2,450 patients (active and on hold) on the waiting list for a kidney. Fifty-nine of these patients died while waiting for a transplant. Traditionally, organs for donation have come from either from living donors or donors who experienced brain death. These organs can be procured from the donor while the heart is still beating and blood is flowing through the body. The number of organs available from these donors has never been sufficient to provide for all of the patients on the waiting lists for transplant. More recently, donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) has been investigated as a method to increase the number of organs available for donation. A report covering the first 25 years of transplantation in Maastrict, Netherlands showed a 44% increase in overall organ donation when DCD was allowed. In 2012, 1,025 total adult kidney transplants were performed in Canada. Of these, only 111 kidneys were DCD and 504 donation after brain death (DBD). Of 1533 retrieved organs, 183 were from DCD donors. The practice of DCD began in Canada in 2006 and the number of donors has increased from four in the first year to 71 in 2012. Policy makers require information on the relative benefits and risks associated with the donation of kidneys following cardiocirculatory death in order to support clinical practice decisions. The objective of this review is to evaluate the clinical evidence regarding the outcomes of patients who receive kidneys via DCD and the guidelines for the retrieval of kidneys from patients who experience cardiocirculatory death.

Kidneys --- Cancer. --- Donation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Kidney Transplantation --- Tissue and Organ Procurement --- Clinical medicine --- Clinical trial --- Confounding --- Dialysis --- Evidence-based medicine --- Health --- Health care --- Health sciences --- Kidney transplantation --- Medical specialties --- Transplantation. --- standards.

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Outcome assessment (Medical care) --- Uterine fibroids.

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Diabetes. --- Evidence-based medicine. --- Insulins therapeutic use. --- Outcome assessment (Medical care)

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Implants, Artificial --- Coronary heart disease --- Materials. --- Surgery.