RT Book, Section
A1 Papszycki, Brian
A1 Caruso, Vincenza
A1 Molmenti, Ernesto P
A2 Molmenti, Ernesto Pompeo
SR Print(0)
ID 1194189255
T1 Organ Donation
T2 Molmenti’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: Operative Techniques and Medical Management, 2e
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260474275
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1194189255
RD 2024/04/25
AB Organ  and  tissue  donation  is  a  relatively  new  intervention  in  the  scope  of  medical  treatment.  Up  until  the  late  1950s,  there  was  no  cure  for  end-stage  renal  disease  or  similar  ailments  such  as  chronic  heart  disease,  liver  failure,  chronic  obstructive  pulmonary  disease  (COPD),  cystic  fibrosis,  or  any  other  disease  that  causes  irreversible  organ  failure.  Deceased  and  living  donation,  although  lifesaving  and  in  critical  need  across  the  United  States,  has  been  the  subject  of  ethical  debate  over  the  years  and  is  still  ongoing.  These  discussions  range  from  the  ethics  of  brain  death,  the  dead  donor  rule,  allocation  of  organs,  consent/autonomy,  and  the  means  of  registering  people  to  be  donors  on  the  consent  registry.  The  goal  of  this  chapter  is  to  review  the  key  ethical  components  of  transplantation  from  deceased  donors,  specifically  for  the  kidney  and  pancreas.