Ethical issues in transplantation: Living related donation in the setting of severe neurological damage without brain death

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 324, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 232-236

  Schlessinger, Shirley ^a   Crook, Errol D ^a,b   Black, Ruth ^a   Barber, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Organ donation; Renal transplantation; Stroke; Substituted judgment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PROGNOSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 0036787669     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200210000-00011     Document Type: Article

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