Removing Financial Disincentives to Organ Donation: An Acceptable Next Step?

[摘要] The numbers are all too familiar, and are repeated so often in the arena of kidney disease that they start to lose meaning, becoming slightly hollow, empty, and spoken with a feeling of resignation. There are >90,000 people on the kidney transplant waiting list and this number is growing. The number of kidney transplants performed annually is only one-fifth of the waiting list overall. The mortality rate while awaiting transplant is 7% per year, and there are recent concerns that donation rates are actually falling (1). It is in this context that novel methods to increase organ donation must be considered thoroughly and thoughtfully.

[学科分类] 泌尿医学

[关键词] Bone marrow necrosis;Sickle cell disease;Hyperhemolysis syndrome