The transplantation of organs from living donors has alwaysinvolved a balancing of the physical risks and psychologicalbenefits to the donor against the benefits to the recipient.Early in the history of transplantation, the expectation wasthat the outcomes for recipients of transplants from livingunrelated donors and for recipients of cadaveric transplantswould be similar and that the risks to unrelated living donorswould therefore not be justified.
As the outcome of kidney transplantation improved and the criteriafor accepting patients for transplantation were expanded, greaternumbers of patients with end-stage renal failure opted for transplantationrather than . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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