Technological advances have increased our ability to detect a life-threatening, life-limiting or
lethal problem early in pregnancy, leaving parents months to anticipate a death or a …

The process of pediatric solid organ transplantation (SOT) places new and increased
stressors on patients and family members. Measures of family functioning may predict …

Objective: Although pediatric donation after circulatory determination of death is increasing
in frequency, there are no national or international donation after circulatory determination of …

Fabrication of 3D cell scaffolds has gained tremendous attention in recent years because of
its applications in tissue engineering and cell biology applications. The success of tissue …

Objectives: To describe important considerations during the process of caring for critically ill
children who may be potential organ donors and supporting the family during the death of …

With the increasing need for kidney transplantation in the paediatric population and
changing donor demographics, children without a living donor option will potentially be …

The Ethics Committee of The Transplantation Society convened a meeting on pediatric
deceased donation of organs in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 21 to 22, 2014. Thirty-four …

Given the widening gap between the number of individuals on transplant waiting lists and
the availability of donated organs, as well as the recent plateau in donations based on …

Importance The need for transplants continues to exceed organ and tissue donor
availability. Although recent surgical advances have resulted in successful transplants using …

Congenital aortic valve stenosis (AS) progresses as an obstructive narrowing of the aortic
orifice due to deregulated extracellular matrix (ECM) production by aortic valve (AV) leaflets …