Solid organ transplantation has shown improvement in patient and graft survival rates due to the development of immunosuppression in the last fifty years; however only the last two decades led to the development of new, ...

In 1967, the Dutch immunologist Jon van Rood called Eurotransplant into life. From the beginning it was a non-profit private foundation. Initially it was a loose cooperation, where tissue typing laboratories and transplantation ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Brain death-associated inflammatory response contributes to increased risk of impaired early liver allograft function, which might be counterbalanced by steroid pretreatment of the organ donor. The aim ...