Ethical aspects of living donor kidney transplantation and recipient adherence to treatment

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 105-109

  Wright, Linda ^a,b   Daar, A S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BENEFICENCE; CADAVER; DECISION MAKING; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; JUSTICE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MONEY; PATERNALISM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY;

EID: 0038278438     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.13.2.l2115333352405g4     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Titmuss RM. The Gift Relationship. From Human Blood to Social Policy. New York, NY: The New Press Chapter; 1997:124.
2. Dossetor JB, Daar AS. Ethics of transplantation: allotransplantation and xenotransplantation. In: Morris PJ, ed. Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: WB Saunders; 2001:732-744.
3. Spital A. Ethical and policy issues in altruistic living and cadaveric organ donation. Clin Transpl. 1997;11:78-79.
4. Childress JF. Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 1982.
5. The Ethics Committee of the United Network of Organ Sharing: ethics of organ transplantation from living donors. Transplant Proc. 1992;24:2236-2237.
6. Spital A. Unrelated living kidney donors, an update of attitudes and use among U.S. transplant centers. Transplantation. 1994;57:1722-1726.
7. Beasley CL, Hull AR, Rosenthal JT. Living kidney donation: a survey of professional attitudes and practices. Am J Kidney Dis. 1997;30:549-557.
8. Kasiske BL, Bia MJ. The evaluation and selection of living kidney donors. Am J Kidney Dis. 1995;26:387-398.
9. Bia MJ, Ramos EL, Danovitch GM, et al. Evaluation of living renal donors. Transplantation. 1995;60:322-327.
10. Olbrisch ME, Levenson JL. Psychosocial assessment of organ transplant candidates: current status and methodological and philosophical issues. Psychosomatics. 1995;36:236-243.
11. Terasaki PI, Cecka JM, Gjertson DW, Takemoto, S. High survival rates of kidney transplants from spousal and living unrelated donors. N Engl J Med. 1995;333:333-336.
12. D'Alessandro AM, Pirsch JD, Knechtle SJ, et al. Living unrelated renal donation: the University of Wisconsin experience. Surgery. 1998;124:604-610.
13. Spital A. Living kidney donation: still worth the risk. Transplant Proc. 1988;20:1051-1058.
14. Simmons RG, Marine SK, Simmons RL. Gift of Life. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books; 1987.
15. Kemph JP, Berman EA, Coppolilo HP. Kidney transplant and shifts in family dynamics. Am J Psych. May 1969;125:39-44.
16. Russell S, Jacob RG. Living related organ donation: the donor's dilemma. Patient Educ Couns. 1993;21:89-99.
17. Johnson EM, Anderson JK, Jacobs C, et al. Long term follow up of living kidney donors: quality of life after donation. Transplantation. 1999;67:717-721.
18. Wainwright SP, Gould D. Non-adherence with medications in organ transplant patients: a literature review. J Adv Nurs. 1997;26:968-977.
19. Surman OS. Psychiatric aspects of organ transplantation. Am J Psychiatr. 1989;146:972-982.
20. Dew M, Kormos R. Early post transplant medical compliance and mental health predict physical morbidity and mortality one to three years after heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 1999;18:549-562.
21. Didlake RH, Dreyfus K, Kerman RH, Van Buren CT, Kahan BD. Patient noncompliance: a major cause of late graft failure in cyclosporin-treated renal transplants. Transplant Proc. 1988;20(suppl 3):63-69.
22. De Geest S, Borgermans L, Gemoets H, et al. Incidence, determinants, and consequences of subclinical noncompliance with immunosuppressive therapy in renal transplant recipients. Transplantation. 1995;59:340-347.
23. Dunn J, Golden D, Van Buren CT, Lewis RM, Lawen J, Kahan BD. Causes of graft loss beyond two years in the cyclosporin era. Transplantation. 1990;49:349-353.
24. Douglas S, Blixen C, Bartucci MR. Relationship between pre-transplant non-compliance and posttransplant outcomes in renal transplant recipients. J Transpl Coord. 1996;6:53-58.
25. Paris W, Muchmore J, Pribil A, Zuhdi N, Cooper DK. Study of the relative incidences of psychosocial factors before and after heart transplantation and the influence of posttransplantation psychosocial factors on heart transplantation outcome. J Heart Lung Transplant. 1994;13:424-432.
26. Sharp LA. A medical anthropologist's view on posttransplant non-adherence: the underground economy of medical survival. Transplant Proc. 1999;31(suppl 4A):31S-33S.
27. Kiley DJ, Lam CS, Pollack, R. A study of treatment compliance following kidney transplantation. Transplantation. 1993;55:51-56.
28. Dew MA, Switzer GE, DiMartini AF, Matukaitis J, Fitzgerald MG, Kormos RL. Psychosocial assessments and outcomes in organ transplantation. Prog Transplant. 2000;10:239-259.
29. Bunzel B, Laederach-Hofman K. Solid organ transplantation: are there predictors for post transplant non-adherence? A literature overview. Transplantation. 2000;70:711-716.
30. Authors for the Live Organ Donor Consensus Group. Consensus statement on the live organ donor. JAMA. 2000;284:2919-2926.
31. Kelly P, Bart C, Craven J. Lung transplantation. In: Craven J, Rodin G, eds. Psychiatric Aspects of Organ Transplantation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 1992:205-223.