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Voluntarism and coercion in living organ donation

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Renal transplantation has become the definitive treatment for end stage renal failure in those patients fit enough to benefit from it. It gives patients a better quality of life, free from dialysis, spares patients and the health service the costs of providing dialysis systems, and it lightens the load and economic pressure on renal units which face increasing demands while remaining under-resourced [1].

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  1. Department of Transplantation, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

    G. M. Collins

  2. Transplantation Pavillon V, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France

    J. M. Dubernard

  3. Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    W. Land

  4. Eurotransplant Foundation, Leiden, The Netherlands

    G. G. Persijn

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Sells, R.A. (1997). Voluntarism and coercion in living organ donation. In: Collins, G.M., Dubernard, J.M., Land, W., Persijn, G.G. (eds) Procurement, Preservation and Allocation of Vascularized Organs. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5422-2_36

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