High mortality among recipients of bought living-unrelated donor kidneys

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 336; no. 8717; p. 725
• Main Authors: Salahudeen, A K, Woods, H F, Pingle, A, Nur-El-Huda Suleyman, M, Shakuntala, K, Nandakumar, M, Yahya, T M, Daar, A S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 22.09.1990
• Subjects: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - complications; Actuarial Analysis; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Child; Commerce - economics; Costs and Cost Analysis; Directed Tissue Donation; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Graft Rejection; Humans; India; Kidney Failure, Chronic - surgery; Kidney Transplantation - adverse effects; Kidney Transplantation - classification; Kidney Transplantation - economics; Kidney Transplantation - mortality; Kidney Transplantation - standards; Male; Middle Aged; Oman; Patient Education as Topic; Risk Assessment; Time Factors; Tissue and Organ Procurement - economics; Tissue and Organ Procurement - methods; Tissue and Organ Procurement - standards; United Arab Emirates; Oman; United Arab Emirates; India; Empirical Approach; Professional Patient Relationship; Health Care and Public Health

Between June, 1984, and May, 1988, 130 patients from three renal units in the United Arab Emirates and Oman went of their own accord to Bombay, where they bought, through brokers, kidneys from living unrelated Indian donors for US$2600-3300. 131 transplants were done, and the 122 patients who surviv...