Kidney donation and transplantation in Eurotransplant 2006-2007: minimizing discard rates by using a rescue allocation policy.

Context: All organ exchange organizations are challenged to maximize the utilization rate of all donors.

Objective: To investigate the benefit of a rescue allocation policy and to study the impact of donor factors on the risk of kidney discard.

Design And Setting: All 4057 donors with kidneys offered for allocation to Eurotransplant between 2006 and 2007 were included.

How to recognize a suitable pancreas donor: a Eurotransplant study of preprocurement factors.

Introduction: Because of the increasing demand for pancreas transplantation, more marginal donors are offered to Eurotransplant. The aim of this study was to validate a donor quality score that would facilitate recognition of a suitable pancreas donor among all reported donors.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed all 3180 consecutively reported pancreas donors for the period between January 1, 2002 and June 30, 2005 and determined the influence of the preprocurement pancreas suitability score (P-PASS) on the acceptance of a pancreas.

Vulvovaginal candidiasis: diagnostic and therapeutic approaches used by Dutch general practitioners.

Objective: To establish how general practitioners (GPs) in the Netherlands diagnose and treat vaginal candidiasis.

Methods: Questionnaires were sent to 1160 Dutch GPs. The GPs were asked to make an inventory of the annual number of consultations for vulvovaginal candidiasis.