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Transplanted organs are harvested from three major sources: cadaveric “brain-dead” donors, cadaveric “cardiac death” donors (donation after cardiac death), and living (related and unrelated) donors. Cadaveric, brain-dead donors account for approximately 54 % of all donors, and the most common causes of death in this group are cerebrovascular accident (CVA)/stroke, head trauma, and anoxia. Traumatic brain injury (TBI), once the most common cause of brain death, has been surpassed by CVA and this has important implications. As such, organs from younger and healthier trauma patients have been replaced by older, sicker stroke patients. Both TBI and CVA will continue to contribute a significant number of organs as nearly 50,000 US residents die from TBI and nearly 142,000 citizens die from CVA per year.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Suite 8215NT, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA

    Eric J. Ley & Ali Salim

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  1. Professor of Surgery Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University Medical School, Boston, USA

    George C. Velmahos

  2. Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Milpark Hospital Academic Trauma Centre and Leratong Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Elias Degiannis

  3. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Dietrich Doll

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Ley, E.J., Salim, A. (2017). Organ Donation. In: Velmahos, G., Degiannis, E., Doll, D. (eds) Penetrating Trauma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49859-0_84

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