Background Significant numbers of patients in the USA and UK die while waiting for solid
organ transplant. Only 1–2% of deaths are eligible as donors with a fraction of the deceased …

Background In Europe, opt-out policies (ie presumed consent) for deceased organ
procurement are an increasingly common strategy to address the organ shortage (Additional …

National liver transplantation (LT) volume has declined since 2006, in part because of
worsening donor organ quality. Trends that degrade organ quality are expected to continue …

This article purports to advance the literature on the impact of presumed consent laws on
deceased donation rates by examining the interactions between a presumed consent legal …

Background: The kidney is the most common transplanted organ, accounting for almost all
living donor transplantations and most deceased donor organ transplantations. The organ …

In this review, we examine whether presumed consent organ donation policies save lives.
We compare presumed consent defaults (where people are considered organ donors by …

This article investigates the impact of legal determinants of cadaveric and living donor organ
transplantation rates using panel data on legislative, procedural and managerial aspects of …

I have always been intrigued by medicine. When I was a 9-year old kid my father used to
come home exhausted after a night-long kidney transplant with blood on his scrubs whose …

The idea of transplantation seems to be commonly identified by lay and professional people
only with transplantation of vascularized organs like kidney or heart. The question arises …

La sociedad española ha experimentado importantes cambios en cuanto a su perfil y
configuración desde que, con la entrada en vigor de la Constitución de 1978, irrumpe un …