A population-based study of cancer incidence in solid organ transplants from donors at various risk of neoplasia.

A population-based cohort study of recipients of organs from donors with a recognized history or active cancer has been conducted by linking the Italian National Registry of Transplanted Patients and the National Registry of Donors with Neoplasia Risk. Between 2002 and 2004, 8,198 solid organ transplants have been performed in Italy, 108 of them with organs from 59 cadaveric donors with various risk of neoplasia. There were two reported cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer during the follow up of the transplanted patients, which lasted 27.

Liver transplantation in Italy: analysis of risk factors associated with graft outcome.

Objective: To analyze the graft outcome after liver transplantation in Italy in the years 1995 to 2000.

Methods: We performed a longitudinal study with follow-up at 3 months, 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years on 1987 liver grafts. The effect of several variables on graft survival was also analyzed.

Kidney graft survival in Italy and factors influencing it.

Purpose: National registry data are often a suitable basis for examination of transplant outcomes. Using data supplied by the Italian National Transplant Registry, established in 1995, we performed the first nationwide analysis of this kind.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of 4893 recipients of cadaveric kidneys transplanted in all Italian centers from 1995 through 2000 was done to study 5-year graft survival.

Analysis of the complex effect of donor's age on survival of subjects who underwent heart transplantation.

Background: Only half of the patients waiting for a heart transplant undergo surgery, whereas several patients continue to die while on the waiting list. Donor organ availability still represents a major problem with respect to reducing the length of the cardiac transplant waiting list. One option to improve donor availability is the use of so called "marginal donors.