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In an ideal transplanter’s world any patient on regular dialysis would prefer an offer of a living donor transplant or a well-matched healthy cadaver kidney. In the real world organizational and immunological problems prevent this ideal, and clinical compromise is essential. Even renal physicians, who are unhappy about renal transplantation, are forced by economic and organizational problems to accept transplantation in order to increase the number of patients treated because of limited dialysis capacity. There is also unanimous pressure from the patients themselves to obtain a transplant.
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Hamilton, D.N.H., Briggs, J.D. (1978). Current status of renal transplantation. In: Anderton, J.L., Parsons, F.M., Jones, D.E. (eds) Living with renal failure. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6185-5_4
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