Leadership in living organ transplantation: beyond deceased donor shortages in Turkey and South Korea
Yasin Uzuntarla
Dear Editor, Turkey and South Korea rank among the countries with the highest rates of living donor organ transplantation, particularly kidney and liver transplants, worldwide [1]. This phenomenon is often attributed solely to the scarcity of deceased donor organs. However, current data and the literature suggest that this pattern arises from a more complex, multi-layered, and structural set