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Objective: Blood and organ transplantation treatment cannot be performed at the desired level, although it has life-saving characteristics. This study was aimed to analyze the relationship between blood donation and orga...

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine the thoughts and knowledge levels of high school students on organ donation, and also to examine whether a significant difference has occurred in their thoughts and knowle...

Organ transplantation, which is an alternative method of organ failure treatment, provides opportunities for most people by keeping them alive while positively affecting their professional development, social relations, ...

The purpose of this study is to find out the knowledge and attitude the last year medical faculty students about organ transplantation. Some 72.3 % of those interviewed were willing to donate their organs, while 26.2 %...

OBJECTIVE: Social consciousness regarding organ donation and transplantation is an important health care problem worldwide. Medical staff and students must have adequate knowledge about this subject. The aim of this stud...

During the past 25 years the results of organ transplantation have improved continuously. The steadily growing success of organ transplantation is only hampered by the lack of available donor organs. Despite the efforts ...

Organ shortage is a significant problem for patients with end-stage renal disease seeking kidney transplantation despite efforts for increasing living kidney donation and strategies such as paired exchange. The donor poo...

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to evaluate hemodialysis (HD) patients’ knowledge about and attitudes towards Kidney Transplantation (KT). MATERIAL and METHODS: A total of 104 HD patients from two HD cen...

OBJECTIVE: Cadaveric organ donation is not at desired levels in our country. However, the number of patients on cadaveric kidney waiting lists is increasing. This situation also makes it difficult to follow cadaveric kid...

The shortage of available organs is the limiting factor for kidney transplantation (Ktx). One of the strategies to increase access to Ktx is the use of non-heart beating (NHB) donors. We herein present a successful Ktx f...

OBJECTIVE: Due to severe organ shortage, living kidney donors are important choices for transplantation. In Muslim countries, such as Turkey, living kidney donors are the main source of donor pool. In the literature, rea...

Objective: We aimed to retrospectively evaluate the follow-up results of living kidney donors (LKD) at our center since 1997. Materials and Methods: LKD instances between 1997 and 2016 were evaluated. Followed-up by at...

The elderly are a fast growing population in the world, and they have a high prevalence of chronic kidney disease. The function of the kidney changes markedly with age. The glomerular fi ltration rate falls progressively...

Resumen: Introducción: La enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) será la segunda causa de muerte en el mundo en 2100. El Registro Español de Diálisis y Trasplante (REDYT) recopila información sobre la incidencia, la preva...