Creating a medical, ethical, and legal framework for complex living kidney donors.
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Peter P. Reese,* Arthur L. Caplan, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and Roy D. Bloom* *Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, and Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Medicine, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 1: 1148–1153, 2006. doi: 10.2215/CJN.02180606
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Background: Kidney transplantation is one of the major progresses of medical science with many ethical debates. The shortage of organs and the increases in waiting list for cadaver transplantation has leaded to transplantation from living donors. In this article, we discuss the ethics of transplantation from living kidney donors. Methods: For compiling this article, we searched in Pubmed and...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN
دوره 1 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006