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ArticleThe Journal of clinical ethics2025

Children as Living Solid Organ Donors: Ethical Discussion and Model Hospital Policy Statement.

Gyan C Moorthy, Aidan P Crowley, Sandra Amaral

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Article in The Journal of clinical ethics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Gyan C Moorthy
Aidan P Crowley
Sandra Amaral

Funding

Promoting Diversity and Sustainability in the NIDDK-Supported Research Workforce through Mentoring Early Career Investigators: Focus on Health EquityK26DK138377 · NIDDK · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI Sandra Amaral · 2023 to 2026
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NIDDK NIH HHS K26 DK138377
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

AbstractIn recent years, more attention has been paid to living donation as a means to reduce the suffering of individuals with end-stage kidney or liver disease. Implicated ethical issues include medical risk and risk of coercion, counterbalanced by improved medical outcomes and the benefits of saving a life. Living donation becomes particularly ethically complicated with the prospect of child donation, given the child's developing autonomy and uniquely dependent status. We outline four broad ethical considerations pertinent to living child organ donation: (1) beneficence, (2) respect for the family as a moral unit, (3) respect for the child as a person, and (4) justice. We conclude that it can be ethical for a healthy child to donate a kidney or liver lobe to a close relative who has exhausted other options provided that certain protections are put into place. Ideally, these donations will be rare. Lastly, we construct a model transplant center donation policy.

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Kidney TransplantationLiver TransplantationLiving DonorsTissue and Organ ProcurementBeneficenceChildFamilyHumansOrganizational PolicyPersonal AutonomyRespectSocial Justice

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PMID39928975
PMCPMC12314555

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