The organ donation and transplantation system strives to honor the gift of donated organs by fully using those organs to save and improve the quality of the liv

Rates of organ donation lag far behind the increasing need. At the start of 2006, more than 90,000 people were waiting to receive a solid organ (kidney, liver,

One of the most interesting and at the same time most challenging fields of medicine and surgery has been that of organ donation and transplantation. It is a fi

The inadequate supply of organs in the United States and other countries continues to drive the reliance on living donor transplantation. In 2000, representativ

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