Ethical aspects of organ donation activities

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 633-637

  Stephan, Antoine ^a,b   Barbari, Antoine ^a   Younan, Farida ^a,b  

^a Lebanese Institute for Renal Disease   (Lebanon)

^b National Organization for Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Donor organ; Ethics; Transplant

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSANGUINITY; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HLA MATCHING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KUWAIT; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOURISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 38549143262     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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