The spouse as a kidney donor: Ethically sound?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 46-48

  Mathieson, Peter W ^a   Jolliffe, David ^a   Jolliffe, Rita ^a   Dudley, Christopher R K ^a   Hamilton, Kay ^a   Lear, Paul A ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOUSE;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASES; SPOUSES;

EID: 0032944196     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.1.46     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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3. Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority. Guidance to Clinicians, 3rd edn. UK Department of Health, London, 1993
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5. Thiel G. Emotionally related living kidney donation: pro and contra. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1997; 12: 1820-1824