Successful Example of How to Implement and Develop a Deceased Organ Donation System in the Caribbean Region: Five-Year Experience of the SEUSA Program in Trinidad and Tobago.

Background: The SEUSA program, the Donation and Transplantation Institute foundation consultancy program, was implemented in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) in 2010 with the support of the National Organ Transplant Unit (NOTU) and the Ministry of Health of T&T.

Methods: The SEUSA program included (1) diagnosis of the current situation using the ODDS (Organ Donation Diagnostic Surveys); (2) creation of a human resources structure through Transplant Procurement Management (TPM); (3) detection of all brain and cardiac deaths in the hospitals implementing the DAS (Decease Alert System); (4) in-hospital awareness based on the EODS (Essentials in Organ Donation); and (5) external hospital audits. Additionally continued monitoring is performed.

[Renal xenotransplant. Acute vascular rejection].

Introduction And Objectives: Organ transplant is nowadays a usual and succesful practice, although with limited application due to the lack of organs. Yearly thousands of patients get access to the waiting list and finally will death while they are waiting for an organ. In the U.

[Renal xenotransplantation from hDAF pig to baboon. Experience and review].

Unlabelled: The renal xenotransplant could be the solution on the demand of organs for transplantation. We present here our experience and review the actual status of the xenotransplant.

Methods: We have done 20 xenotransplants from transgenic pig h DAF to baboons, with four protocols of immunosuppression.

Liver transplantation from maastricht category 2 non-heart-beating donors: a source to increase the donor pool?

Introduction: The demand for liver transplantation has increasingly exceeded the supply of cadaver donor organs. Non-heart-beating donors (NHBDs) may be an alternative to increase the cadaver donor pool. The outcome of 20 liver transplants from Maastricht category 2 NHBD was compared with that of 40 liver transplants from heart-beating donors (HBDs).