In:
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 11, No. 2 ( 2002-04), p. 153-159
Abstract:
In 1999, a case was described on national television in which
a woman had enlisted onto an international bone marrow registry with the altruistic desire to offer her bone marrow to some
unidentified individual in need of a transplant. The potential donor then was notified that she was a compatible match with
someone dying from leukemia and gladly donated her marrow, which cured the recipient of the disease. Years later, though, the
recipient developed end-stage renal disease (ESRD), a consequence of the high-dose chemotherapy she received earlier to destroy her
stem cells and prepare her for the bone marrow transplant. Finding a suitable donor for a kidney transplant proved extremely difficult.
Desperate, she requested that the donor registry personnel help her locate the individual who earlier was determined to be a compatible
donor and asked this now-identifiable individual to consider donating one of her two normally functioning kidneys for a kidney
transplant.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0963-1801
,
1469-2147
DOI:
10.1017/S0963180102112084
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
2002
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