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Chronic Kidney Disease, Transplantation Practices and Transplantation Law in Pakistan: Opportunity for a Global Meditation

“…In a follow‐up study of LURDs by Zargooshi, one‐quarter of sellers agreed that LURDs should be banned (43). Unregulated LURDs have opened up the door for international organ trade and have taken family values and selflessness out of the equation (44). Moreover, this mélange casts an adverse impact on LRDs (7).…”

Ethical Dilemmas and Principles in Organ Transplantation in China

“…As the name implies, organ transplantation is a medical technique that surgically removes a normal, healthy organ or part of it from an individual's body and transplants it into itself or another individual to replace the latter's damaged, diseased, necrotic, or malfunctioning organ, thereby restoring the patient's health (13). These human organs for transplantation are generally derived from cadaveric organ donations and living organ donations.…”

Short history about renal transplantation program in Iran and the world: Special focus on world kidney day

“…At first the donations were mostly from emotionally related individuals such as the patient's husband or wife but this range rapidly extended to include strangers and in time, the number of non-relative organs predominated. In that situation, because only 30 percent of patients in the waiting list for transplantation could receive a kidney from LRD, this program was an obligatory approach for saving many lives not merely for ameliorating quality of life (14,15). By virtue of the teaching of new medical teams, the number of renal transplantation teams increased from 2 to 32 by the end of 2000 (11).…”