Living-Donor Transplants Reexamined

摘要: WASHINGTON—A top transplant surgeon has called into question the ethics of living-donor transplants, citing deaths five kidney donors and one liver donor in United States over past 4 years. Speaking to several hundred surgeons other physicians at American Transplant Congress held here early June, Francis Delmonico, MD, director renal transplantation Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, said that he senses a growing unease practice transplanting organs from living donors. A is “not just client or commodity,” said. While number US continues increase—in 2001, they surpassed deceased for first time—the taken downturn. After publicity surrounding death New York man who donated right lobe his brother, dropped 506 2001 353 2002. For 3 months 2003, Network Organ Sharing (UNOS) counted 66 donors, which projects 264 year, drop about 50% two