DIFFICULTIES UPON CADAVERIC ORGAN PROCUREMENT
HAMDİ KOÇER1, İZZET TİTİZ1, FUNDA TÜRKMEN1, CEYHUN SOLAKOĞLU2, NUR AKGÜN ŞENEL2
1Haydarpaşa Numune Hastanesi, Transplantasyon Ünitesi İSTANBUL
2Haydarpaşa Numune Hastanesi, Anestezi ve Reanimasyon Kliniği İSTANBUL
Abstract
Cadaveric kidneys are hope for a comfortable life for end stage renal failure patients. During the past 13 months, 24 brain stem death patients' relatives were asked for family consent for organ donation; no more than 6 families in 24 gave legal acquiescence for donor nephrectomy. Four kidneys could not be used - three due to poor perfusion, one to rupture; five kidneys were transported to other transplantation units mean while three kidneys were successfully transplanted to end stage renal failure patients in our hospital.