title: Giving the gift of life.
abstract: Living donation is the'Rolls-Royce' option for kidney patients, with few risks for donors. However, donating lung and liver tissue carries greater risks. Here, nurses involved in organ transplants consider the practical and ethical issues of the growing practice of living donation.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trueland
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000941:ethics / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors / Q000941:ethics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016040:Lung Transplantation