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Mental health assessment of altruistic non-directed kidney donors: An EAPM consensus statement

Authors :
Robert Gribble
Marta Novak
Markos Syngelakis
Istvan Mucsi
Terry D. Schneekloth
Gábor Gazdag
Stephen Potts
Emma K. Massey
Frank Vitinius
Paula C. Zimbrean
Yesim Erim
José R. Maldonado
Shehzad K. Niazi
Sohal Y. Ismail
Psychiatry
Internal Medicine
Source :
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 107, 26-32. Elsevier Inc.
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

The number of living kidney donations is increasing in many countries, in response to increasing demand, lengthening waiting lists for transplants from deceased donors, and, in some areas, cultural or religious resistance to deceased donation. In most such donations the donor and recipient are related genetically or emotionally, but there are various routes by which a donor may give a kidney to a recipient who is a stranger. The practice of paired, pooled or chained donation - in which a recipient receives an organ from a stranger, in return for which that recipient‘s emotionally or genetically related (but incompatible) donor gives a kidney to another stranger - is accepted and growing. In contrast, the selling of organs by donors is controversial and generally illegal, except in a few countries.

Details

ISSN :
00223999
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 107, 26-32. Elsevier Inc.
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....60c378af243a6d9c25132160730675e6