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Experts Cite Growing Concerns About Safety of Donors

Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2003;290:181-182.

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Washington—A top transplant surgeon has called into question the ethics of living-donor transplants, citing the deaths of five kidney donors and one liver donor in the United States over the past 4 years.

Speaking to several hundred transplant surgeons and other physicians at the American Transplant Congress held here in early June, Francis Delmonico, MD, director of renal transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, said that he senses a growing unease over the practice of transplanting organs from living donors. A living donor is "not just a client or a commodity," he said.

The number of living donors of kidneys in the US continues to increase and now exceeds the number of deceased kidney donors. The number of living liver donors, which is dwarfed by the number of deceased liver donors, took a downturn after the widely publicized death of a living donor early last year.

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