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Who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ?
In 2009 the Canadian Blood services launched the Living Donor Paired Exchange Registry. This program circumvents the obstacle presented by blood-group or immunologic incompatibility between a living potential donor and his or her intended recipient. At the beginning, only 3 provinces joined the prog...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3205812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22046215 |
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description | In 2009 the Canadian Blood services launched the Living Donor Paired Exchange Registry. This program circumvents the obstacle presented by blood-group or immunologic incompatibility between a living potential donor and his or her intended recipient. At the beginning, only 3 provinces joined the program, but as of October 2010 all Canadian provinces are participants. Up to now, participating donors have travelled to recipients’ transplant centres. We might question whether, in a country such as Canada, the donor or the organ should travel. In this article, we review the arguments for donor travel and the arguments for shipping the kidney. |
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spelling | pubmed-32058122011-11-01 Who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ? Fortin, Marie-Chantal Williams-Jones, Bryn Open Med Analysis and Comment In 2009 the Canadian Blood services launched the Living Donor Paired Exchange Registry. This program circumvents the obstacle presented by blood-group or immunologic incompatibility between a living potential donor and his or her intended recipient. At the beginning, only 3 provinces joined the program, but as of October 2010 all Canadian provinces are participants. Up to now, participating donors have travelled to recipients’ transplant centres. We might question whether, in a country such as Canada, the donor or the organ should travel. In this article, we review the arguments for donor travel and the arguments for shipping the kidney. Open Medicine Publications, Inc. 2011-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3205812/ /pubmed/22046215 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/ Open Medicine applies the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License, which means that anyone is able to freely copy, download, reprint, reuse, distribute, display or perform this work and that authors retain copyright of their work. Any derivative use of this work must be distributed only under a license identical to this one and must be attributed to the authors. Any of these conditions can be waived with permission from the copyright holder. These conditions do not negate or supersede Fair Use laws in any country. |
spellingShingle | Analysis and Comment Fortin, Marie-Chantal Williams-Jones, Bryn Who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ? |
title | Who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ? |
title_full | Who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ? |
title_fullStr | Who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ? |
title_full_unstemmed | Who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ? |
title_short | Who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ? |
title_sort | who should travel in kidney exchange programs: the donor, or the organ? |
topic | Analysis and Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3205812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22046215 |
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