One answer was to expand the donor pool by accepting unrelated living donors.

The center has a donor pool of about 100 women, she said, and planned to perform 500 procedures in its first year.

The use of a different (European) donor pool can account for the difference.

We'd be tapping the same private donor pool.

However, removing roughly half of the donor pool was not a viable alternative, given the increasing need for plasma transfusion.

The donor pool was different in the early days of transplantation.

The shortage is attributed to an increase in those seeking heart replacements and a shrinking donor pool.

But they know far less than they would like about the potential donor pool.

Given the center's large donor pool of 30,000, he added, there are always going to be defaults.

I agree that we need to focus on teen-agers to increase the donor pool.