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Opinions of infertile Turkish women on gamete donation and gestational surrogacy.

Baykal B, Korkmaz C, Ceyhan ST, Goktolga U, Baser I

Department of Histology and Embryology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, ART Center, Ankara, Turkey. baris_baykal@yahoo.com

OBJECTIVE: To determine the approval levels of infertile Turkish women concerning gamete donation and gestational surrogacy. DESIGN: Opinion survey. SETTING: Assisted reproductive treatment center at Gulhane Military Medical Academy. PATIENT(S): 368 women who had applied for infertility treatment. INTERVENTION(S): The patients were asked to answer a questionnaire that included questions about the patient's sociodemographic status, previous medical history with infertility treatment, and opinions on gamete donation and gestational surrogacy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Opinions of patients concerning gamete donation and gestational surrogacy. RESULT(S): Our data in this first study on infertile Turkish women show that some patients approve of gamete donation (23.3% for accepting oocytes and 3.4% for accepting sperm) and gestational surrogacy (15.1%). CONCLUSION(S): Donation and surrogacy are alternate treatments for the serious condition called infertility. As there are patients who would like to use these treatments, each of these patients should have the right to try any of them.

Published 14 April 2008 in Fertil Steril, 89(4): 817-22.
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Articles on Organ Donation published 1 April 2008:

Understanding the antecedents of the acceptance of donation after cardiac death by healthcare professionals.   Crit Care Med, 36(4): 1075-81.

OBJECTIVE: A 3-yr study funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was conducted to identify potential barriers to and opportunities for increasing the number hospitals with donation after cardiac death (DCD) protocols, the support of DCD by individuals involved in the donation request process, and the number DCD donors recovered. This study reports the qualitative findings. DESIGN: Methods used included an advisory committee and an extensive array of key informant interviews ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Organ Donation published 27 March 2008:

Effect of multiorgan donation after cardiac death retrieval on lung performance.   ANZ J Surg, 78(4): 262-5.

AIM: For donation after cardiac death (DCD) transplantation to achieve its full potential, multiorgan retrieval is desirable. Although there are several novel individual techniques recently described for DCD lung donation, they have not been evaluated or compared in a DCD multiorgan scenario. DESCRIPTION: This study describes (i) the technical aspects and (ii) early lung and abdominal organ performance of several combinations of DCD donor liver, kidney and lung retrieval techniques that would ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Organ Donation published 13 March 2008:

Calculating life years from transplant (LYFT): methods for kidney and kidney-pancreas candidates.   Am J Transplant, 8(4): 997-1011.

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Kidney Committee is considering a proposal for a new deceased donor kidney allocation system. Among the components under consideration is a strategy to rank candidates in part by the estimated incremental years of life that are expected to be achieved with a transplant from a specific available deceased donor, computed as the difference in expected median lifespan with that transplant compared with remaining on dialysis. This concept has ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Organ donation and utilization in the United States, 1997-2006.   Am J Transplant, 8(4): 922-34.

Deceased organ donation has increased rapidly since 2002, coinciding with implementation of the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative. The increase in donors has resulted in a corresponding increase in the numbers of kidney, liver, lung and intestinal transplants. While transplants for most organs have increased, discard and nonrecovery rates have not improved or have increased, resulting in a decrease in organs recovered per donor (ORPD) and organs transplanted per donor (OTPD). Thus, the ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Organ Donation published 7 March 2008:

The oversight of solid organ transplantation in the United States.   Am J Transplant, 8(4): 739-44.

The publication of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Final Rule in 2000 resulted in a new and different regulatory environment for solid organ transplantation in the United States. In this review the role of the OPTN in providing oversight is clarified, differentiating the powers of enforcement the OPTN and HHS possess compared to the importance of confidential peer review in promoting compliance with OPTN policies. The function of the OPTN's Membership and Professional ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Organ Donation published 15 January 2008:

The influence of organ acceptance criteria on long-term graft survival: outcomes of a kidney transplant program.   Am J Surg, 195(2): 149-52.

BACKGROUND: In an effort to improve our transplant program's dead-donor kidney acceptance criteria, we compared 2 different consecutive time periods in our transplant program. Period I, in which the program used more-restrictive criteria in accepting dead-donor kidneys for our patients, and period II, when the program used less-restrictive criteria for the dead-donor kidneys that were accepted. The less-restrictive criteria resulted in an increase in the number of renal transplants performed. ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Organ Donation published 14 January 2008:

Ethics of organ donation and transplantation involving prisoners: the debate extends beyond our borders.   Intern Med J, 38(1): 56-9.

The transplantation of solid organs raises many ethical considerations, many of which focus on the need to expand the donor pool, the limiting step in achieving ongoing growth in solid organ transplantation. A contentious source of organs, albeit not one practised in Australia or New Zealand, is the retrieval of donor organs from executed prisoners on death row. Although potentially increasing the organ donor pool, the acceptance of such organ donors raises significant ethical and legal ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

Articles on Organ Donation published 31 December 2007:

Ethical considerations in umbilical cord blood banking.   Obstet Gynecol, 111(1): 178-82.

Pregnant patients have the option at delivery of having their cord blood collected and stored for future use. At many hospitals, they have the option of donating their cord blood to the public banking system for future use by anyone who is an appropriate match (public banking). Patients also have the option of having their cord blood stored for a fee with a commercial/private company for future use within their family (private banking). Currently, private banking is not recommended by major ... [Abstract] [Full-text]

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