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Organ donation and blacks. A critical frontier.
Clive O. Callender,Lannis E. Hall,Yeager C,Jesse B. Barber,Georgia M. Dunston,Vivian W. Pinn-Wiggins +5 more
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The past decade has witnessed an inexorable widening in the gap between the supply of organs for transplantation and the need for organs on the part of desperately ill candidates for transplants, and the scarcity of organs has become the chief limiting factor in clinical transplantation.Abstract:
The past decade has witnessed an inexorable widening in the gap between the supply of organs for transplantation (i.e., the donors) and the need for organs on the part of desperately ill candidates for transplantation. As of June 1990, some 20,882 persons were waiting for organs to become available.1 Three patients on the waiting list die every day as a consequence of this shortage,1 and the scarcity of organs has become the chief limiting factor in clinical transplantation.2 In 1978 the Southeastern Organ Procurement Foundation asked us to identify obstacles to organ donation in the black population, and in particular . . .read more
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Psychological aspects of organ donation : a critical review and synthesis of individual and next-of-kin donation decisions
Carmen M. Radecki,James Jaccard +1 more
TL;DR: A critical review of psychological perspectives on organ donation considers individual decisions to donate organs posthumously and next-of-kin consent decisions and theoretical analysis of intention to donate is presented.
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Differences in access to cadaveric renal transplantation in the United States
Robert A. Wolfe,Valarie B. Ashby,Edgar L. Milford,Wendy E. Bloembergen,Lawrence Y. Agodoa,Philip J. Held,Friedrich K. Port +6 more
TL;DR: Significant differences by age, sex, race, and diabetes in rates of waitlisting for transplantation and by age and race for transplation after waitlisted are indicated.
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Racial disparities in preferences and perceptions regarding organ donation.
TL;DR: To identify reasons for lower organ donation rates by African Americans, knowledge and attitudes about brain death, donation, and transplantation and trust in the health care system are examined.
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Disparities in the Utilization of Live Donor Renal Transplantation
TL;DR: Significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in the utilization of live donor renal transplantation are identified, and educational initiatives and dissemination of processes that enable increased utilization of LDRT may address these disparities.
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Procurement and Allocation of Solid Organs for Transplantation
TL;DR: There has been a progressively widening gap between the number of patients waiting for transplants and thenumber of transplantations performed, and the use of organs from living related donors, living unrelated donors, and asystolic donors has also increased.
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Attitudes Among Blacks Toward Donating Kidneys for Transplantation: A Pilot Project
TL;DR: A research program designed to determine the nature of attitudes of blacks toward kidney donations was developed disclosed a lack of knowledge about kidney transplantation; disassociation and lack of communication between blacks and the medical community; religious fears; fears of premature death; and racism.
Organ donation in blacks: a community approach.
TL;DR: It is expected that increasing the number of black organ donors will result in an improved success rate in black recipients of transplants from recently decreased persons and the adoption of these recommendations will likely result in a decrease in the incidence of renal disease.
Unique HLA-D region heterogeneity in American blacks.
TL;DR: American blacks and whites show heterogeneity in serologically detected and lymphocyte-defined HLA-D region antigen frequencies and the significance of the observed differences in the function of class II molecules is being investigated.