University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2008 Aug;13(4):395-9. doi: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e3283094b8d.
To explore the scope and implications of emerging global problem of transplant tourism, a practice in which patients seek transplant services (most commonly kidney allografts) in countries other than their permanent residence. Potential remedies that must be implemented if abuses are to be curbed are also offered.
Although traveling abroad for medical services may not be problematic from a number of perspectives, what makes transplant tourism so troubling is its link with organ trafficking and transplant commercialism. Unlike many illegal markets, however, this one is driven by the need of patients with irreversible kidney failure, who, along with kidney vendors, are the most vulnerable participants in the process in terms of medical and financial outcomes.
This review explores the scope and implications of transplant tourism, and offers potential remedies that must be implemented if abuses are to be curbed.
目的综述：探讨器官移植旅游这一新兴的全球性问题的范围和影响，该问题指患者在常住地以外的国家寻求移植服务（最常见的是肾脏移植）。文中还提出了遏制这种行为滥用所必须采取的潜在补救措施。
最新发现：尽管从多个角度来看，出国就医本身可能不是问题，但器官移植旅游之所以令人困扰，是因为它与器官贩卖和移植商业化有关。然而，与许多非法市场不同的是，这种市场是由不可逆肾衰竭患者的需求驱动的，这些患者和肾脏卖家是医疗和经济结果方面最脆弱的参与者。
总结：本文探讨了器官移植旅游的范围和影响，并提出了遏制这种行为滥用所必须采取的潜在补救措施。
