TY - BOOK ID - 77890080 TI - Organ donation and transplantation after cardiac death AU - Talbot, David AU - D'Alessandro, Anthony M AU - Muiesan, Paolo PY - 2009 SN - 0191768537 128358025X 9786613892706 0191550957 9780191550959 9780199217335 0199217335 9780191768538 661389270X PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Non-heart-beating organ donation KW - Non-heart-beating organ donation. KW - Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Medical transplantation KW - Organ transplantation KW - Organ transplants KW - Organs (Anatomy) KW - Surgical transplantation KW - Tissue transplantation KW - Tissues KW - Transplant surgery KW - Transplantation surgery KW - Transplants, Organ KW - Surgery KW - Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. KW - Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. KW - Cardiac-dead organ donation KW - NHBD (Non-heart-beating donation) KW - Non-heart-beating cadaver donation KW - Donation of organs, tissues, etc. KW - Cadaver homografts KW - Law and legislation. KW - Transplantation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77890080 AB - 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 ER -