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- Title
Live Kidney Donation: A 36-Year-Old Woman Hoping to Donate a Kidney to Her Mother.
- Authors
Pavlakis, Martha
- Abstract
The article discusses the case of a 36-year-old white nursing student who intends to donate her kidney to her mother who has diabetes and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The first kidney transplantation was performed by Joseph Murray and his team at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954. It assumes that the student's mother will do better with a living donor compared with a deceased-donor kidney transplant. It points out the importance of full medical-surgical and psychosocial evaluation of the donor and ethical assessment of the situation. It also outlines history taking, physical examination and testing as factors included in the evaluation of a possible donor.
- Subjects
KIDNEY transplantation; CHRONIC kidney failure; ORGAN donation; ORGAN donors; MEDICAL ethics; NURSING students; MURRAY, Joseph E., 1919-2012
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2011, Vol 305, Issue 6, p592
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2011.56