Ethical issues in living donor kidney transplantation

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 485-497

  Mazaris, Evangelos ^a   Papalois, Vassilios E ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethical issues; Kidney transplantation; Living donor; Paid donation; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; COST CONTROL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PROTEINURIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REIMBURSEMENT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; ETHICS; GUILT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SAFETY; TRANSPLANTATION;

GUILT; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MOTIVATION; SAFETY; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 33847739282     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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