Re-evaluating Donor Criteria: Live Donors
نویسنده
چکیده
The use of living, rather than cadaveric, donors for organ transplantation remains controversial.‘+ Physicians who consider using living donors face a unique ethical dilemma. They subject a healthy person to a procedure which entails some medical and surgical risk and which does not improve or maintain that person’s health. Instead, the risk to the donor is justified by the benefit to the recipient.
منابع مشابه
P-144: Egg and Embryo Donor's Application Forms in Infertility Centers; Medical, Genetic and Psychosocially Forms in Evaluating Potential Donor Candidate
Background: Nowadays, gamete and embryo donation is applied as effective process in treatment infertility problems. In order to participate in the process of donation, donors should complete an extensive questionnaire that details their personal and family medical history. Included in this questionnaire should be a detailed sexual history, substance abuse history, history of family disease, and...
متن کاملO-19: Challenges of Donor Selection: The Experiences of Iranian Infertile Couples Undergoing Assisted Reproductive Donation Procedures
Background: Couples seeking assisted reproductive donation procedures are faced with complex challenges throughout their treatment which can have important psychological impacts on their life. Selecting a suitable donor is one of the hardest decisions they will ever make. This study was carried out to provide an in-depth description of the experiences of couples in relation to donor selection. ...
متن کاملChallenges of Organ Shortage for Transplantation: Solutions and Opportunities
Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ transplantation today. A variety of approaches have been implemented to expand the organ donor pool including live donation, a national effort to expand deceased donor donation, split organ donation, paired donor exchange, national sharing models and greater utilization of expanded criteria donors. Increased public awareness, im...
متن کاملEvaluation of Kidney Function and Structure in Potential Living Kidney Donors: Implications for the Donor and Recipient
Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease and recipients of living kidney donors fare better than recipients of deceased donors. In view of the shortage of organ supply and the long waiting list, expansion of the living donor pool has been sought. Importantly, donor acceptance criteria must first and foremost be grounded in concerns for donor safety....
متن کاملMaximum number of live births per donor in artificial insemination.
BACKGROUND The maximal number of live births (k) per donor was usually determined by cultural and social perspective. It was rarely decided on the basis of scientific evidence or discussed from mathematical or probabilistic viewpoint. METHODS AND RESULTS To recommend a value for k, we propose three criteria to evaluate its impact on consanguinity and disease incidence due to artificial insemi...
متن کامل