http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/ajt.12675/asset/ajt12675.pdf?v=1&t=hx9ighx4&s=4fac669dc34d08ca067f65314200624e3b6d9a4fLetter to the Editor
Perfect Is the Enemy of Good: The Iranian System of Paid Donation
S. M. Khatami1 and M. Mahdavi-Mazdeh2,
American Journal of Transplantation 2014; 14: 1222–1223
doi: 10.1111/ajt.12675
To the Editor:
We read the article and editorial titled ‘‘Comparison of
health status and quality of life of related versus paid
unrelated living kidney donors’’ and ‘‘Where there is smoke
there is fire: The Iranian system of paid donation.’’ They
tried to shed light on the darker side of living-unrelated
donation (1,2). As there is no concrete solution for organ
shortage, it is the responsibility of experts to discuss
different aspects of every possible system to clarify its
weaknesses and strengths. We fully agree with the authors
that the lack of long-term donor follow-up and the direct
method of payment by the recipient in the Iranian model are
major weak points (3).
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