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Oxford University Press Brain Death Organ Donation And Transplantation the Precious Gift of Restoring Life by Anna Teresa Mazzeo And Deepak Kumar Gupta
This book analyses the impact of organ transplantation. It also presents new, original analyses of data, and assessesmedical practices, social and economic observations, and other information on: access to transplantation services for low-income populations and racial and ethnic minority groups; organ donation rates; waiting times for transplantation; patientsurvival rates and organ failure rates leading to retransplantation; and cost of organ transplantation services. It includeschapters on the possibilities of expanding the pool of available cadaver organs. It also analyzes the results oftransplantation of cadaver organs from older donors and marginal, non-heart beating donors. Transplantation policiesbased on the offering of organs by living donors are also described, as is the impact of delayed graft function on organallocation.