9th Congress of the Andalucian Transplantation SocietyOrgan donationDonation in Private Clinics as an Alternate Strategy to Increase the Pool of Donors
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Methods
A prospective observational study was carried out at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital from January 2012 to March 2015. The study was approved by the local Ethics and Research Committee. We included all the BD donors obtained from private centers in Seville. The following variables were collected: age, sex, blood group, cause of death, used organs, and causes for unused organs.
For the descriptive analysis, analytic variables were represented with the use of absolute and relative
Results
Eleven BD donors were included in our study: 8 of them were male (72.7%) and 3 female (27.3%). The mean age was 68.1 years. Blood group A was more frequent than others (45.5%). The cause of BD was intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) in 9 patients (81.8%) and brain anoxia in 2 (18.2%). After organ evaluation, 17 of them were used (11 kidneys, 4 livers, 1 lung, and 1 heart), and 21 were not. Thus, the organs/donor rate was 1.54. Most organs were rejected owing to inadequate result of biopsy study
Discussion
ONT is continuously developing new strategies to optimize the donation process and to obtain more useful organs [4]. In this way, transplant coordinators are working to follow the lines established by ONT and create new tools or procedures toward the objective of increasing the transplantation rates [4]. Thus, we expanded our screening tools to private medicine, because we think that is an unknown source of potential donors that do not have the right to become donors because they are in private
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