title: [Multiple organ transplantation].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Liver transplantation is the most demanding of all solid organ tranplantations. It requires perfect organization and motivation of health care professionals, patients and their families. This article deals with the procedure for multiple organ procurement, reviews criteria for organ donation and describes the surgical tehnique for multiple organ procurement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adequate selection and evaluation of cadaveric donors and of organs for transplantation should include early identification of potential donors, and early diagnosis of brain death. The procurement of the highest number of viable organs jbfor transplantation requires excellence in each of the phases. Early and aggressive physiologic support in the maintenance of fotential donors can reduce organ donor loss due to irreversible asystole or multiorgan jafiure (it is almost always possible to maintain organ perfusion pressure) and increase the number of organs without increasing post-transplant morbidity or mortality. The ideal donor is a young, previously healthy, brain dead, victim of an accident.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The surgical procedure for multiple organ procurement from brain death donors must be performed without intraopertive organ damage.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za abdominalnu i endokrinu hirurgiju.
authors.forename: Milivoje
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vuković
authors.forename: Nebojsa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Moljević
authors.forename: Zoran
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Milosević
authors.forename: Nenad
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Katanić
authors.forename: Dragan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Krivokuća
mesh_terms: D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D016035:Pancreas Transplantation; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods