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SUBMITTER: Denu RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5937230 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Denu Ryan A RA Mendonca Eneida A EA Fost Norman N
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20171111 2
About 99 000 people are waiting for a kidney in the United States, and many will die waiting. The concept of "imminent death" donation, a type of living donation, has been gaining attention among physicians, patients, and ethicists. We estimated the number of potential imminent death kidney donors at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics by assessing the number of annual deaths in individuals with normal kidney function. Based on a previous survey suggesting that one-third of patients ...[more]