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- Title
Receiving the Gift of Life: Stories from Organ Transplant Recipients.
- Authors
Eberl, Jason T.; McIntosh, Tristan
- Abstract
This symposium includes thirteen personal narratives from people who have received at least one organ transplant from a living or deceased donor. These narratives foster better understanding of the experiences of life-saving organ recipients and their families, including post-transplant difficulties experienced—sometimes requiring multiple transplants. This issue also includes three commentaries by Macey L. Levan, Heather Lannon, and Vidya Fleetwood, Roslyn B. Mannon & Krista L. Lentine. Dr. Levan is a living kidney donor and associate professor of surgery and population health. She writes and teaches on organ transplant and has expertise and experience in governance at the federal level as a member of the board of directors for the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Dr. Lannon is a social worker and transplant advocate. Her work and interest in the topic were inspired by her husband who needed a heart transplant. Dr. Fleetwood is a surgeon specializing in liver transplantation, pancreas transplantation, kidney transplantation, as well as living donor nephrectomy. Dr. Mannon is a nephrologist and professor of medicine, pathology and microbiology. Her work focuses on understanding and improving long-term kidney transplant outcomes for patients, donors, and caregivers. Dr. Lentine is a nephrologist specializing in treatment of adult patients with kidney disease. She is a researcher and co-chaired the international work group that developed guidelines for living donor kidney transplantation.
- Subjects
TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; PANCREAS transplantation; HEART transplantation; KIDNEY transplantation; LIVER transplantation
- Publication
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 2, p103
- ISSN
2157-1732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/nib.2022.0024