Public health safety and transplant with increased-risk organs: striking the balance

Ramesh Batra; Nitin Katariya; Winston Hewitt; Amit Mathur; Sudhakar Reddy; Adyr Moss; Dorry Segev; Andrew Singer

Public health safety and transplant with increased-risk organs: striking the balance

Exp Clin Transplant. 2015 Apr:13 Suppl 1:9-12.

Authors

Ramesh Batra¹, Nitin Katariya, Winston Hewitt, Amit Mathur, Sudhakar Reddy, Adyr Moss, Dorry Segev, Andrew Singer

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

PMID: 25894120

Abstract

There is significant variability amongst transplant centers, Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO), members of public, and patients about organs from Public Health Service increased risk donors. This has therefore required regulatory bodies like Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to formulate policies for transplant centers and OPOs to minimize risk of infectious transmission to recipients of solid-organ transplants from such donors.

Publication types

Lecture

MeSH terms

Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control*
Donor Selection*
HIV Infections / diagnosis
HIV Infections / epidemiology
HIV Infections / prevention & control*
HIV Infections / transmission
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Hepatitis B / diagnosis
Hepatitis B / epidemiology
Hepatitis B / prevention & control*
Hepatitis B / transmission
Hepatitis C / diagnosis
Hepatitis C / epidemiology
Hepatitis C / prevention & control*
Hepatitis C / transmission
Humans
Informed Consent
Patient Education as Topic
Patient Safety
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Tissue Donors / supply & distribution*
Tissue and Organ Procurement*
United States / epidemiology
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