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Evaluation of Living Liver Donors
Progress in Transplantation, 2003As a result of the cadaveric organ shortage, the number of centers performing living donor liver transplantation has increased. Living donor liver transplantation provides immediate organ availability and avoids the risk of life-threatening complications that occur with long waiting times for cadaveric organs; however, it puts a healthy person at risk ...
Dianne LaPointe, Rudow, Robert S, Brown
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Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2006 The present review outlines the principles of living donor liver transplantation, donor workup, procedure and outcomes. Living donation offers a solution to the growing gap between the need for liver transplants and the limited availability of deceased ...
Shimul A Shāh +2 more
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Psychosocial stress of living donors after living donor liver transplantation
Transplantation Proceedings, 2002LIVING DONOR liver transplantation (LDLT) has emerged as an established treatment modality in the therapy of terminal liver disease in adults. Surgery-related complications and reports of fatalities among donors result in an ethical dilemma in the process of donor-recipient evaluation.
M, Walter +9 more
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Patients' attitudes about living donor transplantation and living donor nephrectomy
American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2003The growing shortage of organs available for transplantation has resulted in an increased use of living donors for kidney transplantation. The laparoscopic nephrectomy is a new procedure used to remove kidneys from donors. The study objective was to explore the attitudes of recipients and donors toward living donor kidney transplantation and the impact
Françoise G, Pradel +3 more
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The Living Organ Donor Network: a model registry for living kidney donors
Clinical Transplantation, 2004Abstract: The South‐Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation presents the first report on a programme to track donors through questionnaires completed at the time of donation, 3 months, 6 months, and yearly thereafter. Donors at participating centres were eligible for an insurance policy with a total benefit of $250 000, covering accidental death related ...
Thomas R, McCune +8 more
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Health Policy, 1989
KIE: The capacity to consent to bodily harm is explored in relation to the trade in kidneys obtained from impoverished healthy live donors for cash. The British medical profession has unambiguously condemned the practice, but the law in Britain allows a donor to consent to serious injury where the act had some social purpose, recognized by the law as ...
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KIE: The capacity to consent to bodily harm is explored in relation to the trade in kidneys obtained from impoverished healthy live donors for cash. The British medical profession has unambiguously condemned the practice, but the law in Britain allows a donor to consent to serious injury where the act had some social purpose, recognized by the law as ...
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Donor selection in living donors: prospects and problems
Transplantation Proceedings, 1999THE ESTIMATED prevalence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in Pakistan is 100 per million population. The cost of dialysis is approximately US$5000 to 6000 per annum. As the gross national product is US$430 in the country, the majority of patients with ESRD cannot afford dialysis. The public sector does not offer free dialysis facilities. Cadaver organ
F, Akhtar +5 more
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The History of Living Donor Advocacy in Living Donor Transplantation
2013The history of living donor advocacy importantly highlights the maturation of the field of transplantation. The first successful kidney transplant performed on identical twins in 1954 confirmed the feasibility and efficacy of the surgical procedure. The process that led up to the operation itself set the groundwork for the concepts that would evolve ...
Talia B. Baker, Helen G. Spicer
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Donor Age in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Transplantation Proceedings, 2008We sought to elucidate the influence of donor age in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) using either left lobe (LL) or right lobe (RL) grafts.Recipients (n = 232) were categorized as: group O/LL (LL, donor age >50, n = 20); group Y/LL (LL, donor age < or =50, n = 140); Group O/RL (RL, donor age >50, n = 12); and group Y/RL (RL, donor age < or ...
T, Ikegami +6 more
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1992
On December 23 1954 the first successful renal transplant was performed, the donor and recipient being identical twins. In the Western world up to 20% of kidneys transplanted continue to come from live donors, the remainder from cadavers. However, in certain cultures the use of a cadaver kidney is not acceptable and live donation is essential.
B. G. Wilson +2 more
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On December 23 1954 the first successful renal transplant was performed, the donor and recipient being identical twins. In the Western world up to 20% of kidneys transplanted continue to come from live donors, the remainder from cadavers. However, in certain cultures the use of a cadaver kidney is not acceptable and live donation is essential.
B. G. Wilson +2 more
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