Background Despite considerable advances in reproductive technology, its application is like a double-edged sword, which is associated with numerous challenges. One of the most challenging issues for couples is disclosure of conception circumstances to the offspring. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the decisions of infertile couples undergoing assisted reproductive donation...

This paper investigates campaign donor motivations by examining the ways in which donations to political campaigns tie candidates for the legislature together. Using social network analysis, we examine campaign donations to the California state legislature in 2004. We demonstrate that donor motivations vary by donor type where individual donors and candidate committees are more ideologically mo...

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Kidney Committee is considering a proposal for a new deceased donor kidney allocation system. Among the components under consideration is a strategy to rank candidates in part by the estimated incremental years of life that are expected to be achieved with a transplant from a specific available deceased donor, computed as the difference i...

conclusions we found acceptable short-term survival in both groups; however, living donor recipients continue to have better long-term patient and graft survival rates. results although there were no significant differences in one-year survival rates of patient and graft between study groups, three-years survival rates of patient and graft were significantly longer in living donor kidney transp...

Contextualization: Since May 2022, cases of monkeypox (mpox) have been reported in several countries, with evidence community transmission. In the current scenario, transmission has identified different continents, related to local spread virus by intimate inter-human contact. Objective: The purpose this article is inform transplant about possible implications disease for population recipients ...

INTRODUCTION Selecting a marginal donor in liver transplantation (LT) remains controversial but is necessary because of the small number of available donors. CASE PRESENTATION A 46-year-old Japanese woman was a candidate to donate her liver to her brother, who had decompensated liver cirrhosis of unknown origin. Eight years before the donation, she had a mild liver dysfunction that was diagno...