Offspring living kidney donors should not be ruled out

Should minors be considered as potential living liver donors?

For many patients, living donor liver transplantation represents their only hope of receiving a lifesaving graft. In certain (albeit rare) cases, a minor will be the only suitable donor. Living liver donation by minors has been reported in several countries. In the academic literature and professional guidelines, little attention is paid to the development of an ethical framework for this pract...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Should kidney donors be genotyped for APOL1 risk alleles?

Clinical nephrology has advanced rapidly due to recent breakthroughs in genomic medicine. Several forms of nephropathy heretofore labeled “idiopathic” now have a well-defined genetic basis; more will follow. Whereas it was once taboo to suggest that population ancestry-based genetic variation contributes to ethnic-specific risk for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), the identification of impressi...

Should Campaign Donors Be Identified?

Revision total knee arthroplasty: infection should be ruled out in all cases.

We hypothesized that some aseptic revision total knee arthroplasty failures are indeed caused by occult infection. This prospective study recruited 65 patients undergoing revision total knee arthroplasty. The mean follow-up period was 19 months. Collected synovial fluid was analyzed by Ibis T5000 biosensor (Abbott Molecular Inc, Ill; a multiplex polymerase chain reaction technology). Cases were...