On which basis do transplant surgeons assess medical donor characteristics? | ||
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Category | Frequency* | Sample quote |
1) International literature | 3/14 | With the pancreas, I actually stick to the published data from Minneapolis, that is to Sutherland [et al.], on risk factors for organ loss…to this study with more than 1,000 pancreas transplantations. (IP 02) |
2) Hospital guidelines | 2/14 | We have relatively strict guidelines…It starts already with age. As a rule, we do not accept organs that are more than 40 years old. Institutional guidelines. (IP 06) |
3) Peer custom | 2/14 | There’s this age limit‚ 50 years‘. Wherever that may come from. (IP 12) |
[I check] donor age, cause of death,…weight. These are the essential [factors]. I guess this is generally valid, everywhere. We don’t have special [age] regulations [in our center]. (IP 08) | ||
4) Personal clinical experience | 4/14 | When I look back on our most recent pancreases, they were all between 45 and 55 years [old]. …I think we can do it, transplanting these organs, because we don’t have these long shipping times [like in the USA],… we are very successful at it.(IP 05) |
Polytrauma… whoever refuses that per se, but accepts a 40- or 50-year-old, who has seen younger days – my personal opinion is that this is wrong. (IP 11) |