Organ donation: how many potential organ donors exist? Evaluation of organ donor resources in a metropolis regionOhm, JBrase, RMeyerMoldenhauer, W. HWagner, KIntensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin
We’ve spoken to many people in our community who have pre-planned their end-of-life wishes to include organ donation and then be transformed into a tree in the afterlife with the cremation ashes returned after the donation is complete. Their reasons for becoming organ donors are varied, but...
While Gabito made lunch, I sat at a table in the upstairs kitchen as parents filed up, one by one, to share their stories. They each wore a T-shirt with a picture of their deceased child framed by name and the Dengvaxia Victim number assigned to them by Gabito’s organization. Many o...
This chapter covers emerging zoonotic diseases, with a focus on the current understanding of how and where zoonotic pathogens circulate, their pathways to emergence, potential for sustained human-to-human transmission, and gaps in our knowledge. The first cluster of infections among people may be re...
Developments in the field of bioprinting are being - driven largely by the medical needs of ageing populations, increa- sing unmet demand for organ donors, trends towards non-animal testing on therapeutics using 3D cell culture platforms, clinical needs in wound care, and joint repair and ...
Typically, hearts are removed from brain-dead donors before the organ stops beating, to avoid extensive damage from ischemia. Doctors previously "reanimated" pediatric hearts in the U.S., but they'd never used the system on an adult organ. In countries that have used the system for years, ...
In agro-ecosystem, plant pathogens hamper food quality, crop yield, and global food security. Manipulation of naturally occurring defense mechanisms in host plants is an effective and sustainable approach for plant disease management. Various natural compounds, ranging from cell wall components to metabo...
“completely failed to address the elephant in the room: that we must stop burning fossil fuels and switch to clean energy.” “contains false solutions such as ‘carbon markets.’ Many large global funders are still wedded to false solutions such as fracked gas, mega-dams, clean coal, and...
the test was in most cases not sensitive enough. Although blood donation facilities were soon examining all of their donors for AuAg, many post-transfusion hepatitis B infections continued to appear. Thus, the agar gel diffusion and similar methods were only a temporary solution, and the breakth...
Sayuk GS,Leet TL,Schnitzler MA,Hayashi PH.Nontransplantation of livers from deceased donors who are able to donate another solid organ: how often and why it happens. American Journal of Transplantation . 2007Sayuk GS,Leet TL,Schnitzler MA,Hayashi PH.Nontransplantation of livers from deceased ...