title: Deceased donor renal transplantation and the disruptive effect of commercial transplants: the experience of Oman.
abstract: The Oman Renal Transplantation Program was established in 1988 as a joint venture between Sultan Qaboos University and the Ministry of Health. It began with both living related donor (LRD) and deceased donor (DD) transplants. Over the next nine years, while the LRD programme progressed relatively well, there were only thirteen DD transplants. Two of the DD kidneys were obtained from overseas via an active collaboration with the Euro-transplant organisation, and one DD kidney was obtained from Saudi Arabia within the Gulf Cooperative Council exchange programme. The rest of the DD kidneys were obtained in Oman. The Omani DD programme, although it was a pioneering effort in the Gulf region at the time, was not entirely sustainable. In this paper we focus on the challenges we encountered. Among the major challenges was the absence of resources to establish a dedicated DD programme and particularly the failure to develop a cadre of dedicated transplant coordinators.
authors.affiliation: Oman Transplantation Programme, Ministry of Health and Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat Oman. nabilmohsin@gmail.com.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mohsin
authors.affiliation: Oman Transplantation Programme, Ministry of Health and Sultan Qaboos University, Department of Nephrology, Muscat, Oman.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Al-Busaidy
authors.affiliation: Oman Transplantation Programme, Ministry of Health, Muscat, OMAN.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Al-Marhuby
authors.affiliation: Former Director, Non-Communicable Diseases Department, Ministry of Health, Muscat, OMAN.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Al-Lawati
authors.affiliation: Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Surgery, and Sandra Rotman Center, UHN/ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Daar
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002102:Cadaver; D003132:Commerce; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000941:ethics*; D019520:Living Donors; D009850:Oman; D016730:Program Development; D014019:Tissue Donors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends