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Case Vignettes in Transplant Psychiatry Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

H. Paul Chin
H. Paul Chin*
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry and Transplant, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94114, USA
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Corresponding author. Email: ChinP@sutterhealth.org
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Abstract

The demand for liver transplants continues to far exceed the number of available viable donor organs; hence, it is of utmost importance to determine those individuals who are best able to care for these valuable, limited resources as potential recipients. At the same time, psychiatric comorbidity is common in the course of end-stage liver disease and can be mutually complicating. This article focuses on liver transplant candidacy from a psychiatric perspective, using illustrative cases to underscore the foundational facets of medical ethics that serve as the guide to these complex medical and ethical decisions.

Keywords

organ transplantationliver transplantorgan donorsorgan recipientstransplant psychiatryconsultation-liaison psychiatrytransplant ethics
Type
Research Article
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 2022 , pp. 386 - 394
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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