Psychological Barriers for Living Kidney Donation: How to Inform the Potential Donors?

200780 citationsJournal Article

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Leonieke W. Kranenburg · Leoni (Germany)

Willij C. Zuidema · Erasmus University Rotterdam

Willem Weimar · Erasmus University Rotterdam

Abstract

The majority of patients on the waiting list are willing to accept a living kidney donor, but adopt an awaiting attitude towards their potential donors. Offering those patients professional assistance should be considered.

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Organ Donation and Transplantation Reproductive Health and Technologies Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

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Published in: Transplantation

Volume 84, Issue 8, pp. 965-971

DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000284981.83557.dc

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