Ethics and Moral Problems in Living Donor Organ Transplantation

Organ transplantation is the transfer of all or part of a specific human tissue or organ from one body to another or from one place to another on the same body and beneficial to patients. Organ or tissue to be removed can be taken from a living donor or the bodies of people who died.

Parties involved in living donor transplantation is, the bodies or the donor dies, the family or heirs, resepien, physician or other implementers, and communities. Before deciding to become a donor, who became a living donor should know and understand the risks it faces, both risks in the field of medical, surgical, or to risk his life further as the lack of tissue or organs that have been moved. Donor of the body must obtain permission from the people in his day seriously intend to give her body to the tissue or organ that requires if he had died. Donor families and resepien agreement is necessary to create mutual understanding and avoid conflict as much as possible or even psychological and emotional stress later in life. A resepien have to really understand all the things described by the team managing the transplant, he also must realize that the outcome of transplantation is limited and is likely to fail. Transplant physician and executive power is required to explain the things that might happen after the transplant so that psychological and emotional disorders later in life can dihindarikan. Inadvertently helped the community determines the development of transplant in order to better understand the intent and purpose of transplantation noble effort.

Living donor is the person who gave tissue or organs to another person (resepien). Before deciding to become a donor, one must know and understand the risks involved, both the risk of medical, surgical, and further risk to his life as a lack of tissue or organ that has been moved. In addition, to be a donor, someone may not be experiencing psychological distress. Omosi psychic relationship and should have been thought by living donors is to prevent the problem. Organs taken from living donors such as: skin kidneys and bone marrow blood (blood transfusion).

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