Brain Death

Research from L. Marconi and Colleagues Provide New Insights into Brain Death

Published in Biotech Business Week, May 23rd, 2011

2011 MAY 23 -- According to recent research from Coimbra, Portugal, "Our aim was to evaluate the influence of donor cause of brain death on the results of kidney transplantation. This retrospective study included 896 consecutive deceased-donor renal transplantations performed between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2009."

"We compared outcomes of grafts from donors after cerebrovascular accident (CVA; n = 371) versus head trauma (HT; n = 525). Univariate analysis of pretransplantation data showed statistically significant differences (P <.05): among the following variables for the HT versus CVA groups respectively: recipient age (43.63 +/- 13.2 y vs...

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Source: Biotech Business Week (2011-05-23)

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