Sexo y género en la donación de riñón: visiones desde las profesionales de la consulta de trasplante renal / Sex and gender in kidney donation: views from the clinic

Introducción: En el trasplante renal de donante vivo son las mujeres las que donan con más frecuencia. Las profesionales de nefrología tienen un papel muy importante en la información sobre los tratamientos de sustitución renal y la ayuda en la toma de decisiones.Objetivo:Explorar cómo influye la perspectiva de género en el trasplante renal de donante vivo desde la visión de las profesionales de nefrología.Metodología:Estudio cualitativo fenomenológico. Participaron 13 profesionales de las Unidades de Nefrología y Trasplante Renal de Catalunya. Se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas y se analizaron a través de un análisis temático.Resultados:Las opiniones y percepciones de las profesionales de nefrología se clasificaron a través de los siguientes temas: 1) manera de informar sobre los tratamientos; 2) donación habitual; 3) predisposición para donar y 4) actitud de la persona donante. Las mujeres se muestran más predispuestas a donar debido a los mandatos de género, además de las desigualdades en el mercado laboral. Cabe destacar que, la forma en la toma de decisión es igual para hombres y mujeres. Así mismo, las mujeres se muestran más preparadas psicológicamente y se recuperan más rápido del postoperatorio.Conclusiones:La feminización en la donación de riñón es la suma de factores médicos, socioculturales y económicos. Los roles de género influyen en las mujeres en sus actitudes y comportamientos a lo largo de todo el proceso de trasplante renal de vivo. Las profesionales de nefrología entrevistadas describen las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en la donación de riñón. (AU)

Introduction: In living donor kidney transplantation, women are the most frequent donors. Nephrology professionals play a very important role in informing about renal replacement treatments and assisting in decision-making.Objective:To explore how gender perspective influences living donor renal transplantation from the views of nephrology professionals.Methodology:A qualitative phenomenological study was carried out. Thirteen professionals from the Nephrology and Renal Transplant Units in Catalonia participated in this study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using a thematic analysis.Results:The opinions and perceptions of female nephrology professionals were classified according to the following topics: 1) way of informing about treatments; 2) habitual donation; 3) predisposition to donate and 4) attitude of the donor. Women are more likely to donate due to gender mandates, as well as to inequalities in the labour market. It should be noted that the decision-making process is the same for men and women, that women are better psychologically prepared and recover more quickly from the postoperative period.Conclusions:Feminization in kidney donation is the sum of medical, socio-cultural and economic factors. Gender roles influence women’s attitudes and behaviours throughout the living kidney transplantation process. The female nephrology professionals interviewed describe the differences between men and women in kidney donation. (AU)

A Method to Compensate for the Errors Caused by Temperature in Structured-Light 3D Cameras.

Although low cost red-green-blue-depth (RGB-D) cameras are factory calibrated, to meet the accuracy requirements needed in many industrial applications proper calibration strategies have to be applied. Generally, these strategies do not consider the effect of temperature on the camera measurements. The aim of this paper is to evaluate this effect considering an Orbbec Astra camera. To analyze this camera performance, an experimental study in a thermal chamber has been carried out. From this experiment, it has been seen that produced errors can be modeled as an hyperbolic paraboloid function. To compensate for this error, a two-step method that first computes the error and then corrects it has been proposed. To compute the error two possible strategies are proposed, one based on the infrared distortion map and the other on the depth map. The proposed method has been tested in an experimental scenario with different Orbbec Astra cameras and also in a real environment. In both cases, its good performance has been demonstrated. In addition, the method has been compared with the Kinect v1 achieving similar results. Therefore, the proposed method corrects the error due to temperature, is simple, requires a low computational cost and might be applicable to other similar cameras.