TY - JOUR
T1 - Media appeals by pediatric patients for living donors and the impact on a transplant center
AU - Verghese, Priya
AU - Garvey, Catherine A.
AU - Mauer, Michael
AU - Matas, Arthur J
PY - 2011/3/27
Y1 - 2011/3/27
N2 - Little is published regarding the effect of advertising for kidney donors on transplant centers. At our center, families of nine children used media appeals. Per candidate, there were 8 to 260 potential donor calls, 92 (11.6%) were medically ineligible, 326 (41.1%) voluntarily did not proceed or an alternate donor had been approved, 38 (4.8%) were ABO incompatible, and 327 (41.1%) had positive crossmatch or unsuitable human leukocyte antigens. Media appeals resulted in four living donor transplants and five nondirected donors to other candidates, and we made directed changes in our center. The ethical debate of advertising for organ donors continues.
AB - Little is published regarding the effect of advertising for kidney donors on transplant centers. At our center, families of nine children used media appeals. Per candidate, there were 8 to 260 potential donor calls, 92 (11.6%) were medically ineligible, 326 (41.1%) voluntarily did not proceed or an alternate donor had been approved, 38 (4.8%) were ABO incompatible, and 327 (41.1%) had positive crossmatch or unsuitable human leukocyte antigens. Media appeals resulted in four living donor transplants and five nondirected donors to other candidates, and we made directed changes in our center. The ethical debate of advertising for organ donors continues.
KW - Kidney donor
KW - Media appeals
KW - Pediatric kidney transplant
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U2 - 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182063066
DO - 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182063066
M3 - Article
C2 - 21150703
AN - SCOPUS:79952755500
SN - 0041-1337
VL - 91
SP - 593
EP - 596
JO - Transplantation
JF - Transplantation
IS - 6
ER -