Renal and urogenital injuries occur in approximately 10-20% of abdominal trauma in adults
and children. Optimal management should take into consideration the anatomic injury, the …

Liver allocation in Eurotransplant is complex because allocation rules need to follow not
only the guidelines of the European Commission but also the specific regulations of each of …

Advances in surgical procedures, technology, and immune suppression have transformed
organ transplantation. However, the metabolic changes that occur during organ retrieval …

Background Recently, robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) was recently introduced
as renal replacement mini-invasive surgery. Objective To report surgical technique …

The increased utilization of high-risk renal grafts for transplantation requires optimization of
pretransplant organ assessment strategies. Current decision-making methods to accept an …

Despite increasing obesity rates in the dialysis population, obese kidney transplant
candidates are still denied transplantation by many centers. We performed a single-center …

Context Literature on conventional and minimally invasive operative techniques has not
been systematically reviewed for kidney transplant recipients. Objective To systematically …

The final decision to accept an organ for transplantation remains a subjective one. With
“poor organ quality” commonly cited as a major reason for kidney discard, accurate …

Circulatory death donor (DCD) kidney transplantations are steadily increasing. Consensus
reports recommend limiting donor warm ischemia time (DWIT) in DCD donation, although an …

Donor organs are exposed to sequential temperature changes during the transplantation
process. The role of donor warm ischemia and cold ischemia times on post-transplant …