Cadaveric donors are deceased individuals whose organs and tissues are recovered for transplantation into patients with organ failure. Donation may follow death determined by neurological criteria (brain death) or, in some programs, circulatory criteria, and the organs commonly retrieved include the kidneys, liver, …
Cadaveric donors are deceased individuals whose organs and tissues are recovered for transplantation into patients with organ failure. Donation may follow death determined by neurological criteria (brain death) or, in some programs, circulatory criteria, and the organs commonly retrieved include the kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas, and corneas, along with tissues such as bone, skin, and heart valves. Deceased donation expands the supply of organs beyond what living donors can provide and is essential to treating conditions for which transplantation is the definitive therapy. The process depends on consent and donor registration, careful assessment of organ suitability, timely procurement and preservation, and immunological matching to reduce the risk of rejection. Outcomes are influenced by the time organs spend outside the body, the donor's medical history, and the recipient's condition, and deceased-donor grafts are sometimes compared with living-donor grafts in studies of transplant function. Within the scope of the field of Organ Transplantation, which addresses donor evaluation, surgical technique, immunosuppression, and graft survival, cadaveric donation is a foundational topic. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to organ and tissue transplantation.
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