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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	N02.421.911
Concept/Terms	Tissue and Organ Procurement Tissue and Organ Procurement Tissue Procurement Tissue Procurement Tissue Procurements Required Organ Donation Request Required Organ Donation Request Required Request Required Requests Organ Donation Organ Donation Organ Donations Organ Procurement Organ Procurement Organ Procurements Organ Procurement Systems Organ Procurement Systems Organ Procurement System Tissue Donation Tissue Donation Tissue Donations Donor Cards Donor Cards Card, Donor Cards, Donor Donor Card

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Tissue and Organ Procurement".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services [N02]
Health Services [N02.421]
Tissue and Organ Procurement [N02.421.911]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Tissue and Organ Procurement".

Tissue and Organ Procurement
Directed Tissue Donation
Donor Selection

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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.

Bar chart showing 152 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
1998	1	0	1
2000	1	0	1
2001	1	0	1
2002	3	0	3
2003	1	0	1
2004	0	1	1
2005	1	0	1
2006	6	2	8
2007	4	1	5
2008	4	0	4
2009	1	2	3
2010	4	0	4
2011	3	2	5
2012	6	2	8
2013	3	1	4
2014	6	2	8
2015	4	3	7
2016	9	4	13
2017	5	0	5
2018	5	0	5
2019	1	4	5
2020	14	0	14
2021	11	2	13
2022	12	0	12
2023	7	0	7
2024	9	2	11
2025	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Tissue and Organ Procurement" by people in Profiles.

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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Nordham KD, Tatum D, Attia AS, Patel MB, Paramesh A, Duchesne JC, Nahmias J, Maiga AW, Peetz AB, Udekwu PO, Stiles A, Shell C, Stodghill JD, Maghsoudi T, Iacullo E, McLafferty B, Coonan E, Boudreau RM, Zimmerman SA, Shammassian B, Egodage T, Aramento I, Morris P, Metheny J, Farrell MS, Painter MD, McCabe OT, Spadafore P, Wong DT, Serrano J, Sciarretta JD, Kim P, Hayton R, Gonzales D, Murry J, Meadows K, Jacobson LE, Williams JM, Bernard AC, Smith B, Morrissey SL, Patel N, Tabello D, Teicher E, Chowdhury SM, Ahmad F, Marcos BS, West MA, Jacome TH, Davis G, Marks JA, Rattigan D, Haan JM, Lightwine K, Matsushima K, Park S, Santos A, Shrestha K, Sawyer R, VandenBerg S, Jean RJ, Hicks RC, Lueckel S, Bugaev N, Abosena W, Alvarez C, Lieser MJ, McDonald H, Dumas RP, Fitzgerald CA, Terzian WTH, Tian Y, Mousafeiris V, Mulita F, Berne JD, Mederos DR, Smith AA, Taghavi S. Impact of catastrophic brain injury guidelines on organ donation rates: Results of an EAST multicenter trial. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2025 Jan 01; 98(1):117-126.

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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 Jun; 24(6):76-79.

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Warner ED, Pritting C, Dutta S, Bierowski M, Ullah W, Brailovsky Y, Kittleson M, Alvarez RJ, Rame JE, Hajduczok A, Kumar V, Ahmad D, Tchantchaleishvili V, Rajapreyar IN. The impact of the OPTN policy change on patients with a durable left ventricular assist device and chronic kidney disease: Analysis of the UNOS database. Artif Organs. 2024 Oct; 48(10):1180-1189.

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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 May; 28(3):e14747.

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