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Living Donors—Selection and Acceptability

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Manual of Renal Transplantation

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Removal of one of a pair of organs from a healthy living person for the purpose of transplantation into another human being is a relatively new biological concept. One should not use living related donors indiscriminately because of the responsibility it entails especially now, when the supply of cadaver kidneys, though not at an ideal level, is getting better.

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  1. Satya N. Chatterjee
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Chatterjee, S.N. (1979). Living Donors—Selection and Acceptability. In: Manual of Renal Transplantation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6139-1_6

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