The sporadic but recurrent implementation of transplant operations under no official rules made latent value conflicts manifest, randomly shaping the political landscape.
Government decisions and their outcomes, namely the enactment and subsequent implementation of organ transplants, attracted public attention and helped formulate public opinion on the issue, more than did the processes leading to enactment.
Nevertheless, there is a need for further action to increase the number of transplantations (both from living and deceased donors), adopting uniform standards in transplant clinical practice and working towards implementation of a paired kidney transplant programme in order to reduce the number of dialysis patients and those on waiting lists (Table 3).
Prior to implementation of the OSOTC LDKEP, attitudes of transplant professionals from each of eight participating kidney transplant programs were surveyed to determined attitudes toward living donation and LDKEP and to identify potential barriers to LDKEP.
Although donor dopamine treatment reduces the requirement for post transplantation dialysis in renal transplant recipients, implementation of dopamine in donor management is hampered by its hemodynamic side-effects.
While our study provides further confirmation that both populations are at high risk of CDI during the first 100 days post-transplant, the implementation of standalone PCR testing did not appear to increase the rate of CDI diagnosis at our center.
The directed investigation of etiological factors especially relevant to large transplant population subgroups can therefore yield useful information that may help inform the design and implementation of measures to reduce overall post-transplant CVD burden.
There is a chronic shortage of transplants.
Finally the success of transplants increases the demand for re-transplants, where this is possible.
San Francisco is a city of transplants.
