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The search for a kidney transplant donor is a significant decision-making stress for many extended families. The family is asked to donate the kidney of one member to save the life of another. Seventy-nine cases were reviewed and family tension is noted in 21 of these. It is concluded that earlier studies have minimized the nature of this crisis, because they have not focused on the family as an interacting unit or on the nondonor—the family member who "could" donate but does not.
R. G. Simmons (Mon,) studied this question.