Pediatric Organ Donation: 16-Year Experience of PICU/ICU of a Third Level Hospital in Portugal, 2006-2021.

Sara Sofia S RodriguesAndré Costa E SilvaMargarida RiosMarta GriloAugusto Ribeiro

Published in: Pediatric transplantation (2024)

Although pediatric organ donation represents a small proportion of overall organ donation, children and adolescents make a significant contribution to the pool of donated organs. In this study 252 solid organs were collected from children and adolescent. Two hundred and two recipients benefited from 62 pediatric organ donors, with a recipient/donor ratio of 3.3.

Keyphrases

young adults
intensive care unit
childhood cancer
kidney transplantation
emergency department