Procurement, preservation, and transport of cadaver kidneys

Surg Clin North Am. 1998 Feb;78(1):41-54. doi: 10.1016/s0039-6109(05)70633-2.

Abstract

This article discusses the guidelines for brain death determination, the criteria for donor selection, the management of the cadaveric donor, the surgical techniques of isolated renal and multiorgan retrieval, methods of organ preservation, and proper transport of organs to the recipient.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adenosine / therapeutic use
  • Allopurinol / therapeutic use
  • Brain Death / classification
  • Brain Death / diagnosis
  • Cadaver
  • Cryopreservation
  • Glutathione / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Insulin / therapeutic use
  • Kidney Transplantation*
  • Nephrectomy
  • Organ Preservation Solutions / therapeutic use
  • Organ Preservation* / methods
  • Organ Transplantation
  • Patient Selection
  • Perfusion
  • Raffinose / therapeutic use
  • Tissue Donors / classification
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement* / methods

Substances

  • Insulin
  • Organ Preservation Solutions
  • University of Wisconsin-lactobionate solution
  • Allopurinol
  • Glutathione
  • Adenosine
  • Raffinose