Open Medicine
(Jan 2016)
Suggestions on how to make suboptimal kidney transplantation an ethically viable option
Graziano Vincenzo,
Buccelli Claudio,
Capasso Emanuele,
De Micco Francesco,
Casella Claudia,
Di Lorenzo Pierpaolo,
Paternoster Mariano
Affiliations
Graziano Vincenzo
Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”. Via S. Pansini 5, 80131, Naples, Italy
Buccelli Claudio
Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”. Via S. Pansini 5, 80131, Naples, Italy
Capasso Emanuele
Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”. Via S. Pansini 5, 80131, Naples, Italy
De Micco Francesco
Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”. Via S. Pansini 5, 80131, Naples, Italy
Casella Claudia
Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”. Via S. Pansini 5, 80131, Naples, Italy
Di Lorenzo Pierpaolo
Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”. Via S. Pansini 5, 80131, Naples, Italy
Paternoster Mariano
Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”. Via S. Pansini 5, 80131, Naples, Italy
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/med-2016-0090
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11,
no. 1
Abstract
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To overcome kidney donation, the pool of potentially eligible donors has been widened by using suboptimal organs harvested from living donors or cadavers. These organs may engender health complications as age, risk factors, and pathologies of donors fail to meet the standard donor criteria.
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