Strategies for evaluation of suitable donors: Italian experience.
Italy was lacking standardised procedures for donor safety evaluation. We developed practice guidelines, while a panel of experts coordinated by the National Transplant Centre, is available 24 hours a day to support decisions in difficult cases. The guidelines identify five levels of risk and give recommendations for the utilization of donors with HBV and HCV infections as well as for malignancies with negligible or very low risk of transmission. In conclusion we aim to standardize the process of donor evaluation across Italy, to increase the pool of utilised donors and to reduce the risk of communicable disease transmission.
Venettoni
Sante
S
Italian National Transplant Centre, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy. cnt@iss.it
Emilio
Sergio Curtoni
SC
Scalamogna
Mario
M
Grossi
Paolo
P
Gianelli
Andrea
A
Grigioni
Walter
W
Ciancio
Bruno Christian
BC
Rossi
Massimo
M
Gabbrielli
Francesco
F
Rizzato
Lucia
L
Costa
Alessandro Nanni
AN
D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000635:transmission; D007558:Italy; D009369:Neoplasms; D018579:Patient Selection; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012449:Safety; D014019:Tissue Donors