directed tissue donation

..The purpose of this study was to define donation patterns and lost donor opportunities in severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients...

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..If the importance of this is not recognized, social policies can be neither adequate nor effective...

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..For many patients live kidney donation is the only chance for early transplantation with an excellent long-lasting kidney graft function...

..This article addresses central issues involved with NDD and describes our experiences with the programme so far at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden...

..These results afford a better understanding of these complex issues in two different cultural contexts, and will be useful in the development of international guidelines for LAD...

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..Utilization of DDS and distribution of marginal kidneys to older recipients would improve allocation...

..In the present case acute cellular rejection occurred within the first day after living-related renal transplantation and was strongly suspected from histopathological findings in the allograft biopsy specimen...

..Extrapolating these levels of willingness nationally, a 1-11% increase in living donation rates yearly (84-711 more transplants) may be possible if donor-exchange programs were available nationwide...

..This vulnerability could be financial, social or psychological In this paper we discuss how to assess the willingness or unwillingness of a kidney donor and discover if any coercion has been applied on him/her be it direct or indirect...

..However, deciding on what data are relevant is a normative issue. The challenge for both research and policy making is to bring together empirical and normative issues...

..The paper concludes by noting a potential tension between the first guiding principle of the Infertility Treatment Act 1995 (Vic) and the current Victorian policy on TT...

..8%, 87.8% and 87.8%) recipients. CONCLUSIONS: Despite HLA disparity, rejection and survival rates of living unrelated transplants under current immunosuppressive protocols are comparable to those of living related transplants...

..Therefore, it is time to constrain the slippery slope and state that intentioned PGD for conceiving children who might serve as siblings for mutual tissue donations should be declined...

..For the noble act of organ donation after death, the real death of the donor must be fully ascertained...

..We evaluated the arguments pro and con concerning kidney sales from a German perspective. At present, we see social, medical, and ethical reasons why organ selling should not be legalized in Germany...

..We argue that the current reasoning for such a ban is based on unjustified fears and unsupported assumptions, which are not a solid basis for determining eligibility for lifesaving therapy for the neediest members of our society...

..This paper draws attention to vulnerabilities that may affect the voluntariness of the donor's decision. Suggestions are made as to how to approach the evaluation and selection of potential donors...

..In that case, the wish to receive gametes from a first-degree relative is motivated by the wish to establish as far as possible a genetic link with the child...

..To determine the approval levels of infertile Turkish women concerning gamete donation and gestational surrogacy...

..This study suggests that differences in conditioning regimens and stem cell sources should be taken into account when considering donor-type chimerism...

..The authors offer opinions that challenge the ethical issues and attempt to overcome those views that hinder progress in the field...

..5%, 55.6%, and 20.7% were not in support of reward, compensation only, and financial reward, respectively. While live kidney donation was accepted by the majority of individuals surveyed, only the minority approved of commercialization...

..No patients experienced delayed graft function as defined by the need for dialysis in the first week. Current evidence suggests that live donor kidney transport is safe and feasible...

..Which psychodiagnostic criteria indicate artificial donation motives at work in living organ donation?..

..The more prudent approach of excluding from matching recipients with DSA with >2000MFI reduces the probability of matched pairs having a positive crossmatch without significantly decreasing the number of possible transplants...

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..There are two regions in the country, Bio Bio and Valparaíso, where Regional Blood Centers are located, that have put in place several strategies in order to obtain better results...

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..The ongoing development of live donor kidney transplant has generated many ethical dilemmas. It is important to be aware of the attitudes of transplant professionals involved in this practice...

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..This study investigates the new phenomenon of parents of donor offspring searching for and contacting their child's 'donor siblings' (i.e. donor offspring conceived by the same donor) and donor...

..Living donor kidney exchange is now performed in several countries. However, no information is available on the practical problems inherent to these programs. Here, we describe our experiences with 276 couples enrolled in the Dutch program...

..6. Potential donors should be informed that their medical care will not be affected by their decision regarding embryo donation...

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..While this isolated case demonstrated that living related liver donation can be performed successfully with a pregnant donor, it should be undertaken only when there is absolutely no other donor and the recipient is in urgent need...

..These policies are not only unethical but threaten the balance and success of the entire UNOS system. This paper proposes one possible solution, which seeks to balance the concepts of justice and utility...

..If our findings are confirmed in a more diverse randomly selected sample, then the UNOS variances that permit these exchanges should be reconsidered...

..This program, together with uncompromised penalties, would hopefully eradicate organ trafficking...

..Directed donation of cord blood should be considered when there is a specific diagnosis of a disease within a family known to be amenable to stem cell transplantation...

..These cases illustrate that the traditional dichotomy between the medical model on the one hand and the 'designer' or autonomy model on the other hand is simplistic--they represent an intermediate category...

..Provision of nonidentifying information about the donor to the recipient couple was acceptable to almost 70% whereas 40% found giving the same information to the child acceptable...

..The field of communication psychology lends to the understanding of coercion and to the importance of donors possessing a status of patient-hood in the classical Hippocratic condition...

..Altruistic strangers should be educated to allocate their donated organs according to a prudent balance of equity and utility rather than their emotional response to a particular patient's plight, identity, or circumstances...

..On the other hand, some authors have argued that anonymous donors should be allowed to select their recipients. This study was designed to explore public attitudes toward this issue...

..The author experienced some unpleasant professional consequences of his act but, nevertheless, is convinced that he had taken the right step when deciding to give a kidney to a stranger...

..CONCLUSION: Patients considering this method of acquiring live-donated kidneys should be counseled of the inherent risks and possible adverse outcomes including diminished dialysis-free survival...

..Further development of accurate prognostic classification systems will allow a risk-adapted strategy for an individual patient...

..I argue that under some conditions the obligations generated by freely and foreseeably causing a child to exist can be justifiably transferred to others...

..In continuing the programme, appropriateness of referral needs to be refined to reduce wastage rates...

..Overcoming specific barriers may lead not only to improved nutritional status but also to better patient survival, decreased health care costs, and increased quality of life. ..

..Furthermore, these analyses will serve to support future developments of prospective clinical trials. ..

..This will facilitate the introduction of lung retrieval for transplant from NHBDs, which has the potential to extend the lives of thousands of Americans suffering with a variety of lung diseases. ..

..A monocyte monolayer assay will be performed using the spleens and sensitized red cells of the pups from the three serial breedings to determine the level of phagocytosis of the fetal reticuloendothelial system. ..

..Overcoming specific barriers may lead not only to improved dialysis adequacy but also to better patient survival and decreased health care costs. ..