Twin epidemics: Suicides and opiate overdoses are increasingly fueling our donor supply in transplantation

Clin Transplant. 2020 May;34(5):e13849. doi: 10.1111/ctr.13849. Epub 2020 Apr 5.

Authors

Matthew Goss¹, Anjay Batra², John Vierling³, Abbas Rana³

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA.
² School of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
³ Abdominal Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.

PMID: 32248587
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.13849

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Drug Overdose* / epidemiology
Epidemics
Humans
Opiate Overdose*
Suicide*
Tissue Donors*