Suggestions on how to make suboptimal kidney transplantation an ethically viable option

To overcome kidney donation, the pool of potentially eligible donors has been widened by using suboptimal organs harvested from living donors or cadavers. These organs may engender health complications as age, risk factors, and pathologies of donors fail to meet the standard donor criteria.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Graziano Vincenzo, Buccelli Claudio, Capasso Emanuele, De Micco Francesco, Casella Claudia, Di Lorenzo Pierpaolo, Paternoster Mariano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2016-01-01
Series:Open Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/med-2016-0090