Marginal Donors: Current and Future Status

Book Overview

In response to persistent donor organ shortages, organs from marginal donors, such as expanded criteria donors (ECD) and donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors, are now accepted and have been successfully transplanted, reducing the waiting times for transplantation. Especially in Japan, transplantation of DCD kidneys has a relatively long history because of the difficulty or lack of national consensus in accepting brain death, which has made...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4431561226
• ISBN13: 9784431561224
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"