LIVING UNRELATED (PAID) KIDNEY-TRANSPLANTATION IN THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES - HIGH-RISK OF COMPLICATIONS BESIDES THE ETHICAL PROBLEM

Abstract

Due to inadequate cadaveric and living related organ supply, many end-stage renal disease patients go to third-world countries for living unrelated (paid) kidney transplantation. Thirty-four patients who have had transplantations in two centres in India before coming to our centre for post-transplant care and follow-up are reported in this study.