Nager Syndrome Does Not Preclude Organ Donation

What's not wrong with conditional organ donation?

In a well known British case, the relatives of a dead man consented to the use of his organs for transplant on the condition that they were transplanted only into white people. The British government condemned the acceptance of racist offers and the panel they set up to report on the case condemned all conditional offers of donation. The panel appealed to a principle of altruism and meeting the...

Use of Standard Form Does Not Preclude TILA Violation

Impaired face recognition does not preclude intact whole face perception

We studied intact and impaired processes in a prosopagnosic patient (RP). In Experiment 1, RP showed an inversion superiority effect with both faces and objects, with better performance when stimuli were presented upside down than in normal upright orientation. In Experiment 2, we studied the effect of face configuration directly by comparing matching performance with normal vs. scrambled faces...

Severe intellectual disability does not preclude renal transplantation.

BACKGROUND Intellectual disability (ID) in patients with chronic kidney disease is a relative contraindication for kidney transplantation. METHODS We analysed a retrospective cohort of 16 recipients of kidney transplantation with ID and 83 controls. RESULTS Graft survival at 5 years was similar between patients (81.2%) and controls (80.2%), P = 0.9. Patient survival at 5 years was lower amo...

Organ donation.

Transplantation is now an established form of treatment for organ failure in childhood. Much has been published on the outcome and management of children with organ transplants, the ethical issues have been widely discussed, and the criteria for the diagnosis of brain death have been established. Most transplanted organs are taken from donors who are brain dead but have a circulation and are be...