Attitudes of Minority Patients with End‐Stage Renal Disease Regarding ABO‐Incompatible List‐Paired Exchanges

A few transplant centers in the United States have implemented list‐paired exchange programs that include both ABO‐compatible and ABO‐incompatible living‐donor recipients. ABO‐incompatible list‐paired exchanges raise ethical concerns because they increase the total number of organs available but inc...

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Published in:	American journal of transplantation Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 83 - 88
Main Authors:	Ackerman, P. D., Thistlethwaite, J. R., Ross, L. F.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford UK Munksgaard International Publishers 01-01-2006 Blackwell
Subjects:	ABO Blood-Group System - immunology Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Attitude to Health - ethnology Attitudes Biological and medical sciences Directed Tissue Donation - ethics Female Histocompatibility - ethics Humans kidney exchange Kidney Failure, Chronic - ethnology Kidney Failure, Chronic - psychology Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy Kidney Transplantation - ethics Kidney Transplantation - ethnology list‐paired exchange Living Donors - psychology Living Donors - supply & distribution living paired exchange Male Medical sciences Middle Aged minority Minority Groups - psychology Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases Nephropathies. Renovascular diseases. Renal failure Renal failure Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases transplantation Waiting Lists Kidney disease Human Incompatibility Urinary system disease Attitude ABO(H)-System Attitudes Patient Transplantation living paired exchange Homotransplantation kidney exchange Exchange Blood group Treatment Surgery Minority Renal failure Graft List list-paired exchange
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