Moral and ethical issues in living-donor liver transplant in Egypt

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-24

  Abdeldayem, Hesham M ^a   Allam, Naglaa A ^b   Salah, Essam ^a   Aziz, Amr Mostafa ^a   Kashkoush, Samy ^a   Adawy, Nermine M ^a   Gad, Hisham ^a   Helmy, Amr ^a  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Donor; Informed consent; Recipient; Voluntarism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; DECISION MAKING; DONOR SELECTION; EGYPT; FAMILY ATTITUDE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ALTRUISM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHICS; FAMILY RELATION; GIFT GIVING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMED CONSENT; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ALTRUISM; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EGYPT; FAMILY RELATIONS; GIFT GIVING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MORALS; MOTIVATION; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 67649217286     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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