Single-photon emission computed tomography imaging for brain death donor counseling

Organ donation awareness is very poor in India. We have a high demand for transplant organs with poor supply. Apnea test is the confirmatory test for brain death in our country. The Transplantation of Human Organs Act does not support any ancillary testing for the confirmation of brain death in our...

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Autores principales: Palaniswamy, Vijayanand, Sadhasivam, Suganya, Selvakumaran, Cibi, Jayabal, Priyadharsan, Ananth, S. R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4994129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27630461
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.188200
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author Palaniswamy, Vijayanand
Sadhasivam, Suganya
Selvakumaran, Cibi
Jayabal, Priyadharsan
Ananth, S. R.
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description Organ donation awareness is very poor in India. We have a high demand for transplant organs with poor supply. Apnea test is the confirmatory test for brain death in our country. The Transplantation of Human Organs Act does not support any ancillary testing for the confirmation of brain death in our country. Radionuclide scan is used widely in western countries as a confirmatory test. We in our institution used this as a tool for family counseling with successful conversion rate.
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spelling pubmed-49941292016-09-14 Single-photon emission computed tomography imaging for brain death donor counseling Palaniswamy, Vijayanand Sadhasivam, Suganya Selvakumaran, Cibi Jayabal, Priyadharsan Ananth, S. R. Indian J Crit Care Med Brief Communication Organ donation awareness is very poor in India. We have a high demand for transplant organs with poor supply. Apnea test is the confirmatory test for brain death in our country. The Transplantation of Human Organs Act does not support any ancillary testing for the confirmation of brain death in our country. Radionuclide scan is used widely in western countries as a confirmatory test. We in our institution used this as a tool for family counseling with successful conversion rate. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4994129/ /pubmed/27630461 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.188200 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Palaniswamy, Vijayanand
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Single-photon emission computed tomography imaging for brain death donor counseling
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title_sort single-photon emission computed tomography imaging for brain death donor counseling
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4994129/
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