Case Reports and Literature Review About Family Autonomy in the Process of Donation of Organs and Gametes: An Ethical and Legal Analysis.

The recovery or collection of postmortem semen raises relevant ethical and social concerns. In this study we report 2 cases witnessed by the authors in an organ procurement organization in Brazil. The patients had a diagnosis of brain death, were organ donors, and had no consent for the use of postmortem sperm.

[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.

Efficacy of social worker role in corneal donation in two different periods.

Introduction: The Brazilian National System of Transplantation and the Ministry of Health in Brazil establish procedures and effective actions for occupational health care so that there are increasing numbers of organ and tissue donations.

Objective: This study analyzes the performance of social workers at the Intrahospital Donation of Organs and Tissues for Transplantation, Clinical Hospital, State University of Campinas, Brazil (CIHDOTT).

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the number of potential cornea donors, effective donations, family refusal, and the reasons for nonimplementation of the donations in 2009 (period studied with the presence of social workers) compared with 2006 (period studied without the presence of social workers).

Congenital hydrocephalus: gestational and neonatal outcomes.

Purpose: To evaluate gestational and neonatal outcomes in pregnancies complicated by fetal hydrocephalus.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of 287 cases of fetal hydrocephalus followed at the Fetal Medicine Unit of the University of Campinas in the period of 1996 to 2006.

Results: Mean maternal age was 25 years, mean gestational age at diagnosis was 27 weeks.