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Living Donor Advocacy

An Evolving Role Within Transplantation

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. JENNIFER STEEL

    1. University of Pittsburgh STARZL TRANSPLAN INST, PITTSBURGH, USA

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  • A comprehensive overview of live organ donations and its risks, challenges and future directions

  • Facilitates better understanding of the complexities of living donor surgeries, patient evaluations and ethics

  • Beneficial to healthcare professionals and patients undergoing transplantation or living donor surgery

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Living Donation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Medical Selection of Live Donors

      • Christine Wu, Henkie P. Tan
      Pages 3-15

    3. Kidney Paired Donation Programs for Incompatible Living Kidney Donors and Recipients

      • Sommer E. Gentry, Ron Shapiro, Dorry L. Segev
      Pages 17-27

    4. Living Donor Liver Transplantation

      • Vikraman Gunabushanam, Abhideep Chaudhary, Abhinav Humar
      Pages 29-40

    5. Intestinal Transplantation from Living Donors

      • Massimiliano Tuveri, Salvatore Pisu, Luca Cicalese
      Pages 41-74

    6. Living Donor Lung Transplantation

      • Robbin G. Cohen, Mark L. Barr, Vaughn A. Starnes
      Pages 75-89

    7. Live Donor Pancreas Transplantation

      • Miguel Tan
      Pages 91-100

  3. Living Donor Advocacy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. The History of Living Donor Advocacy in Living Donor Transplantation

      • Talia B. Baker, Helen G. Spicer
      Pages 103-117

    3. Findings from a National Survey of Living Donor Advocates

      • Jennifer L. Steel, Andrea Dunlavy, Maranda Friday, Mark Unruh, Chanelle Labash, Kendal Kingsley et al.
      Pages 119-130

    4. The Independent Donor Advocate and the Independent Donor Advocate Team

      • Dianne LaPointe Rudow
      Pages 131-138

    5. Classification of Living Organ Donors

      • Andrew W. Webb
      Pages 139-147

    6. Unrelated Donors

      • Mary Amanda Dew, Ginger Boneysteele, Andrea F. DiMartini
      Pages 149-167

    7. Education of the Donor by the ILDA (Psychosocial Aspects)

      • Marjorie A. Clay
      Pages 169-195

    8. Components and Timing of the ILDA Evaluation

      • Kathleen Swartz
      Pages 197-204

    9. Contraindications to Living Donation from an ILDA Perspective

      • Rebecca Hays
      Pages 205-219

    10. Management of Conflict Between the Independent Living Donor Advocate and the Transplant Team

      • Roxanne M. Taylor
      Pages 221-229

    11. Story Behind the Story

      • Barbara L. Rutt
      Pages 231-251

    12. Living Donor Experience

      • Donna M. Kinzler
      Pages 253-258
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About this book

The inadequate supply of organs in the United States and other countries continues to drive the reliance on living donor transplantation. In 2000, representatives of the transplant community convened for a meeting on living donation in an effort to provide guidelines to promote the welfare of living donors. The consensus statement that resulted from this meeting recommended that transplant centers retain an Independent Living Donor Advocate (ILDA) to focus on the best interest of the donor. A decade later, nearly every transplant center in the United States, performing living donor surgeries, has incorporated an ILDA into their living donor screening and/or evaluation process Living Donor Advocate provides an overview of living donation and its risks, ethical challenges and future developments​, as well as details about the role a Living Donor Advocate plays in the transplantation process. This book will interest health professionals across various disciplines and patients undergoing transplantation or living donor surgery.    

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This is a well written, thorough review of the role that independent living donor advocates (ILDAs) play in evaluating and counseling potential donors. … The book is well written with interesting case studies. … This will be a very useful resource in most transplant centers.” (Anitha Vijaan, Doody’s Book Reviews, March, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Pittsburgh STARZL TRANSPLAN INST, PITTSBURGH, USA

    JENNIFER STEEL

About the editor

Jennifer Steel is an Independent Living Donor Advocate (ILDA) at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Transplant Center. She is also on the executive committee of ILDAs for the National Kidney Foundation, and recently published the results of a national survey of ILDAs in the American Journal of Transplantation and completed a webinar for the Department of Health and Human Services concerning living donor advocacy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Living Donor Advocacy

  • Book Subtitle: An Evolving Role Within Transplantation

  • Editors: JENNIFER STEEL

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9143-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9142-2Published: 22 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-9143-9Published: 22 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 362

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Transplant Surgery, Medicine/Public Health, general, Nephrology, Hepatology

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