The Drug-Intoxication Epidemic and Solid-Organ Transplantation

N Engl J Med. 2018 May 17;378(20):1943-1945. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1802706.

Authors

Mandeep R Mehra¹, John A Jarcho¹, Wida Cherikh², Muthiah Vaduganathan³, Rebecca R Lehman², Jacqueline Smits⁴, Josef Stehlik⁵

Affiliations

¹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA mmehra@bwh.harvard.edu.
² United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
³ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
⁴ Eurotransplant International Foundation, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁵ University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT.

PMID: 29768141
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1802706

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Brain Death
Cause of Death*
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions*
Epidemics
Europe / epidemiology
Humans
Organ Transplantation / trends*
Poisoning / mortality
Substance-Related Disorders / epidemiology*
Substance-Related Disorders / mortality
Tissue Donors*
United States / epidemiology