I ran across this scholarly paper the other day, compliments of my google scholar alert. I encourage everyone to read it in its entirety. Below are some excerpts: The World Health Organization estimates that there is a kidney sold every hour illegally. After the introduction of cyclosporine (anti-rejection medication) in the mid-70s and global …
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Insight Into the Dismal Living Donor Follow-Up Rate
Unfortunately the entire article is unavailable as of yet, but here is the abstract. Not complying with the federal follow-up mandate isn’t new news, but what’s illuminating about this article is the disconnect between attitudes toward living organ donor follow-up and implementation. Attitude: Sixty-eight percent of LKD and 83% of LLD respondents said that …
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How Kidney Paired Donation Affects ALL Living Kidney Donors
If you haven’t already, you’ll want to see my prior post wherein I set the stage for why transplants aren’t necessarily cheaper than dialysis. (and PS I failed to mention the growing number of older folks being diagnosed with end-stage renal disease who are choosing not to have any treatment at all.) Dissecting that explanation matters …
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Kidney Paired Donation Workgroup Recommendation (Updated)
UPDATED March 8: See below the graphic. Here’s the final recommendation from the Kidney Paired Donation Work Group recommendation as presented at the ACOT meeting today: Update March 8, 2013: I posted this graphic yesterday during the ACOT meeting while I was live-tweeting. I wanted my twitter followers to access …
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Let’s Hear It For Hubris
A Lebanese transplant surgeon not only engaged in the illegal and unethical practice of taking foreigners big checks and passing along (miniscule) portions of them to a poverty-stricken citizens in exchange for a kidney, he published about it – THREE TIMES. That’s what we call audacity, my friends. One transplant journal figured it out …
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