AT THE PRESENT time, the validity of kidney transplant from living donors (LD) is based on many ethical and clinical considerations, which include the free willingness of the donor, the limited amount of risks to his or her health, and the results, which in most reports are better than those from cadaver donors (CD). On the other hand, the use of living unrelated donors (LURD) in kidney transplantation is still debated, and different opinions are expressed; in the United States it accounts for only 2% of all kidney transplants performed yearly.1 The data from our experience on this subject are reported here.
ISSUES IN ORGAN DONATION:LIVING UNRELATED KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION / D., Alfani; Bruzzone, Paolo; Pretagostini, Renzo; Poli, Luca; Cortesini, Raffaello. - In: TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS. - ISSN 0041-1345. - STAMPA. - 30:5(1998), pp. 2255-2258. [10.1016/s0041-1345(98)00610-1]
ISSUES IN ORGAN DONATION:LIVING UNRELATED KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION
BRUZZONE, Paolo;PRETAGOSTINI, Renzo;POLI, Luca;CORTESINI, Raffaello
1998
Abstract
AT THE PRESENT time, the validity of kidney transplant from living donors (LD) is based on many ethical and clinical considerations, which include the free willingness of the donor, the limited amount of risks to his or her health, and the results, which in most reports are better than those from cadaver donors (CD). On the other hand, the use of living unrelated donors (LURD) in kidney transplantation is still debated, and different opinions are expressed; in the United States it accounts for only 2% of all kidney transplants performed yearly.1 The data from our experience on this subject are reported here.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
