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Expanding the Donor Pool Through Intensive Care to Facilitate Organ Donation: Results of a Spanish Multicenter Study.

Transplantation

August 2017

1 Organización Nacional de Trasplantes, Madrid, Spain. 2 Intensive Care Unit, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. 3 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 4 Donor Coordination Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain. 5 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain. 6 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Infanta Cristina, Badajoz, Spain. 7 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario de Tarragona Joan XXIII, Tarragona, Spain. 8 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain. 9 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain. 10 Intensive Care Unit, Complejo Hospitalario de Torrecárdenas, Almería, Spain. 11 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain. 12 Donor Coordination Unit, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico de La Fe, Valencia, Spain. 13 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Regional de Málaga, Málaga, Spain. 14 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain.

Background: Intensive Care to facilitate Organ Donation (ICOD) may help to increase the donor pool. We describe the Spanish experience with ICOD.

Methods: Achieving Comprehensive Coordination in Organ Donation (ACCORD)-Spain consisted of an audit of the donation pathway from patients who died as a result of a devastating brain injury (possible donors) in 68 hospitals during November 1, 2014, to April 30, 2015.

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Controlling Diabetes After Liver Transplantation: Room for Improvement.

Transplantation

October 2016

1 Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain.2 Hospitén Clínica Roca, Las Palmas, Spain.3 Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.4 Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra (IdiSNA), CIBEREHD, Estella, Spain.5 Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, CIBEREHD, Córdoba, Spain.6 Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain., Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, Zaraoza, Spain.7 Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Universidad de Valencia, CIBEREHD, Valencia, Spain.

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic illness with great impact on long-term outcome after liver transplantation (LT). Despite this, the current level of glycemic control and quality of screening strategies for diabetes-associated conditions that are being provided to liver transplant recipients with diabetes have not yet been assessed.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional, multicenter study that included 344 liver transplant recipients and examined the level of glycemic control and its associated factors, as well as the quality of screening strategies for diabetes-associated conditions.

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