A flexible procedure for multiple cadaveric organ procurement.
Techniques have been developed which permit removal of the kidneys, liver, heart and other organs from the same donor without jeopardy to any of the individual grafts. The guiding principle is avoidance with all organs of warm ischemia. This is achieved by carefully timed and controlled infusion of cold solutions into anatomic regions, the limits of which are defined by preliminary dissection.
D002102:Cadaver; D006085:Graft Survival; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods; D009926:Organ Preservation / Q000379:methods*; D014015:Tissue Banks; D014019:Tissue Donors