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The ideal deceased organ donor is a younger person who dies from traumatic head injury that is isolated to the brain and leaves the thoracic and abdominal organ function intact. Such a deceased donor provides excellent transplantable organs with an opportunity to achieve immediate allograft function and long-term patient survival. As the size of the recipient waiting list and the number of waiting list deaths increase, older donors and donors with characteristics once thought to preclude organ donation are being used more and more frequently (1).
Metzger et al. (Tue,) studied this question.