30 April 2021 : Original article
Organ Donation from Donors with Hepatitis B or C in South Korea: A 2013-2017 Nationwide Data Analysis
Hoonsung Park1CEF, Eun-sil Jung2BE, Myoung Hwa Lee3BC, Jae-Myeong Lee4ACDEF*DOI: 10.12659/AOT.928947
Ann Transplant 2021; 26:e928947
Table 3 Donation failure cases after obtaining donation consent and determining brain death owing to HBV infection between 2013 and 2017 in South Korea.
| Case no. | Sex | Age (y) | HBsAg | HBsAb | Anti-HBc Ab (IgM) | Anti-HBc Ab (IgG) | HBeAg | Anti-HBe Ab | PCR titer (UI/mL) | Donation failure reasons | Decision timing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M | 34 | + | − | − | + | + | − | 170 000 000 | Not suitable as donor | After the first brain death assessment |
| 2 | M | 45 | + | − | − | + | − | + | 215 | No recipients | After brain death determination |
| 3 | M | 50 | + | − | − | + | + | − | 3 590 000 | Not suitable as donor | After donation consent |
| 4 | M | 37 | + | − | + | + | + | − | >170 000 000 | Not suitable as donor | After EEG |
| 5 | F | 40 | + | − | − | + | − | + | 10 504 | Not suitable as donor | During organ procurement |
| 6 | M | 43 | + | − | − | + | + | − | 33 002 847 | Not suitable as donor | After obtaining donation consent |
| 7 | M | 40 | + | + | − | − | + | + | 269 000 | No recipients | After brain death determination |
| 8 | M | 50 | + | + | − | − | + | + | <20 | Abdominal tuberculosis infection | During organ procurement |
| 9 | M | 55 | + | − | − | − | + | + | Not brain dead - seizure activity on EEG | After the second brain death assessment | |
| 10 | M | 41 | + | − | − | − | + | − | No recipients | After obtaining donation consent | |
| 11 | M | 68 | + | − | − | + | − | + | RCC on abdominal CT | After EEG | |
| 12 | M | 45 | + | − | − | + | − | + | Cardiac death from hemodynamic instability | After the first brain death assessment | |
| EEG – electroencephalogram; RCC – renal cell carcinoma. Case 1 had 989 400 000 DNA copies and case 11 had less than 116 DNA copies. | |||||||||||






