[Profile of effective donors from organ and tissue procurement services].

Objective: To characterize the profile of effective organ and tissue donors and to understand which organs and tissues were donated for transplantation.

Methods: This was a quantitative, descriptive, exploratory, retrospective study that analyzed clinical data from 305 donors between January 2006 to December 2010. The data were then analyzed using descriptive analyses, generating frequency tables, measures of position (mean, minimum and maximum) and measures of dispersion (standard deviation) for data that was social and clinical in nature.

Semen collection requirement from multiple-organs brain-dead donors: report of two cases and analysis of the available Brazilian legislation.

Along with developments in transplantation there have been major breakthroughs in the techniques of assisted reproduction. The areas of common interest include requesting semen collection from organ donors with a diagnosis of brain death. After the recent report of two cases in the Search Service of Organs and Tissues, we analyzed legislation in our country, which still lacks specific guidance in such situations.

Success rates, quality of life, and feasibility of sacral nerve stimulation in elderly patients: 1-year follow-up.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) frequently occurs in elderly. International guidelines recommend pharmacological therapy as first-line treatment, but elderly do not respond in many cases. The purpose of this study was to report cure rates, quality of life, and feasibility of sacral neurostimulation (SNS) as an alternative option in the elderly.

[Use of bulking agents in urinary incontinece].

Urinary incontinence consist in voluntary urine leakage. Female affected in the world are about 200 thousand. Urinary incontinence affect severely women quality of life.

[The Italian Fanconi Anemia Registry].

The Italian Registry of Fanconi's Anaemia (RIAF) was established in 1994 at the Cytogenetics Department of the Elena d'Aosta Hospital in Naples. Its aim is to collect data regarding Italian Fanconi's anaemia (FA) patients and their relatives. Since FA is a rare disease, the Registry is expected to benefit patients, improving the knowledge of this illness from the diagnostic, clinical, therapeutical and epidemiological viewpoint, and also supporting the laboratory and clinical research on FA aetiology, pathophysiology and therapy.