Marginal Donors Current and Future Status /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Asano, Takehide (Editor), Fukushima, Norihide (Editor), Kenmochi, Takashi (Editor), Matsuno, Naoto (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Surgery.; Surgical transplantation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Transplant Surgery.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.

In response to persistent donor organ shortages, organs from marginal donors, such as expanded criteria donors (ECD) and donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors, are now accepted and have been successfully transplanted, reducing the waiting times for transplantation. Especially in Japan, transplan...