Donor Autonomy and Self-Sacrifice in Living Organ Donation: An Ethical Legal and Psychological Aspects of Transplantation (ELPAT) View

Clinical teams understandably wish to minimise risks to living kidney donors undergoing surgery, but are often faced with uncertainty about the extent of risk, or donors who wish to proceed despite those risks. Here we explore how these difficult decisions may be approached and consider the conflict...

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Published in:Transplant international 2022-03, Vol.35 (1), p.10131-10131
Main Authors: Mamode, Nizam, Van Assche, Kristof, Burnapp, Lisa, Courtney, Aisling, van Dellen, David, Houthoff, Mireille, Maple, Hannah, Moorlock, Greg, Dor, Frank J M F, Lennerling, Annette
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
autonomy 2
care
guidelines
Health Archive
Humans
impact
Kidney
kidney donors
Kirurgi
liver
living donation
Living Donors - psychology
Organ Transplantation
risk
Surgery
Tissue and Organ Procurement
transplantation
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Summary:Clinical teams understandably wish to minimise risks to living kidney donors undergoing surgery, but are often faced with uncertainty about the extent of risk, or donors who wish to proceed despite those risks. Here we explore how these difficult decisions may be approached and consider the conflicts between autonomy and paternalism, the place of self-sacrifice and consideration of risks and benefits. Donor autonomy should be considered as in the context of the depth and strength of feeling, understanding risk and competing influences. Discussion of risks could be improved by using absolute risk, supra-regional MDMs and including the risks to the clinical team as well as the donor. The psychological effects on the donor of poor outcomes for the untransplanted recipient should also be taken into account. There is a lack of detailed data on the risks to the donor who has significant co-morbidities.
ISSN:1432-2277
0934-0874
1432-2277
DOI:10.3389/ti.2022.10131