Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Organ donation and transplantation activities in Iran Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a great impact on reducing organ transplantation activities. The questionnaire included the numbers of brain death confirmations, family consents, organ recoveries, and transplanted solid organs. Brain death due to head trauma significantly decreased in two time intervals and suicide increased by 14.44% during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to 2018-2019 period. Conclusion: A significant reduction was observed in organ donation and transplantation during COVID-19 pandemic.

Choriocarcinoma transmitted with the transplant: Case Study Choriocarcinoma is a rare kind of cancer that may be either gestational or non-gestational. The goal of this research is to report a case of choriocarcinoma transmission from the donor following kidney donation. A 45-year-old female received a kidney from a 25-year-old brain death referred to the hospital due to a cerebral hemorrhage of non-traumatic origin. She had a successful delivery 48 days before the brain death. The transplant was successfully performed.

Brain death hormone therapy and Graft survival: a systematic review of the literature Method and materials: Randomized clinical trials were reviewed to investigate the effects of hormone therapy on graft survival amongst brain death cases. Conclusions: All in all, results from the present systematic reviews showed that the brain death hormone therapy use does not have a detrimental effect on overall survival organ recipients. Keywords: Brain death, Hormone therapy, Graft survival

COVID-19 Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients From a Single Center in Iran In this study, our aim was to evaluate the risk factors for increased mortality in deceased donor kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 at a single center in Iran. Materials and methods: This was a retrospective study in a single center. During the 17-month ongoing COVID19 pandemic in Iran, there were 153 deceased donor kidney recipients at our center with suspected COVID19 symptoms.