Tissue and Organ Procurement
"Tissue and Organ Procurement" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The administrative procedures involved with acquiring TISSUES or organs for TRANSPLANTATION through various programs, systems, or organizations. These procedures include obtaining consent from TISSUE DONORS and arranging for transportation of donated tissues and organs, after TISSUE HARVESTING, to HOSPITALS for processing and transplantation.
| Descriptor ID |
D009927
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N02.421.911
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| Concept/Terms |
Donor Cards- Donor Cards
- Card, Donor
- Cards, Donor
- Donor Card
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Tissue and Organ Procurement" by people in this website by year, and whether "Tissue and Organ Procurement" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2012 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2017 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2021 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2022 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2023 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tissue and Organ Procurement" by people in Profiles.
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Adler JT, Cron DC, Kuk AE, Yu M, Mohan S, Husain SA, Parast L. Association between out-of-sequence allocation and deceased donor kidney nonuse across organ procurement organizations. Am J Transplant. 2025 Aug; 25(8):1707-1714.
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Cron DC, Kuk AE, Parast L, Husain SA, Welten VM, Yu M, Mohan S, Adler JT. Variation Across Organ Procurement Organizations in Deceased-Donor Kidney Offer Notification Practices. Clin Transplant. 2024 Nov; 38(11):e70024.
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Cron DC, Kuk AE, Parast L, Husain SA, King KL, Yu M, Mohan S, Adler JT. Associations Among Circle-Based Kidney Allocation, Center Waiting Time, and Likelihood of Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation. Am J Kidney Dis. 2025 Feb; 85(2):187-195.
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Chen S, Sade RM, Entwistle JW. Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule. J Med Philos. 2024 09 03; 49(5):458-469.
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Power A, Sweat KR, Roth A, Dykes JC, Kaufman B, Ma M, Chen S, Hollander SA, Profita E, Rosenthal DN, Barkoff L, Chen CY, Davies RR, Almond CS. Contemporary Pediatric Heart Transplant Waitlist Mortality. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 Aug 13; 84(7):620-632.
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Entwistle JW, Sade RM. Change the Law to Optimize Organ Donation. Am J Bioeth. 2024 06; 24(6):76-79.
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Miyamoto T, Pritting CD, Tatum R, Ahmad D, Brailovsky Y, Shah MK, Rajapreyar I, Rame JE, Alvarez RJ, Entwistle JW, Massey HT, Tchantchaleishvili V. Characterizing Adaptive Changes and Patient Survival After 2018 Donor Allocation Restructuring: A UNOS Database Analysis. Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2024 Jun 01; 23(2):81-88.
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Haregu F, Dixon RJ, Porter M, McCulloch M. Pediatric donor heart utilization variability among organ procurement organizations. Pediatr Transplant. 2024 05; 28(3):e14747.
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Mazur M, Carmona Rubio A, Eisen HJ, Bhat G, Dowling R. Impact of the New Heart Allocation System on the Medium-Term Outcomes in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. ASAIO J. 2024 09 01; 70(9):778-786.
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Ross-Driscoll K, McElroy LM, Adler JT. Geography, inequities, and the social determinants of health in transplantation. Front Public Health. 2023; 11:1286810.