Hello, kidney friends!
In this tweet, let’s talk about why there are relatively strict ethical restrictions on relative kidney transplantation?
As a form of kidney transplantation, relative kidney transplantation has unique advantages compared to organ donation after death (DCD) kidney transplantation, so its number is growing year by year around the world. Today, as many domestic medical centers have made significant progress in ABO blood type incompatible kidney transplantation, the application scope of relative kidney transplantation has been further broadened.
However, unlike DCD kidney transplantation, relative kidney transplantation must undergo strict ethical approval before implementation. According to the latest “Regulations on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation” in my country, living organ donors must be at least 18 years old, and recipients are limited to the donor’s spouse, direct blood relatives or collateral blood relatives within three generations.
Such restrictions are mainly based on the following reasons:
First, due to the close blood relationship between direct relatives, there is a high similarity in genetic markers, which helps to increase the compatibility of organ transplantation and reduce the risk of rejection.
Secondly, limiting donors to immediate family members can help reduce the possibility of organ trading, because donations between family members are often based on free and pure family motives.
In addition, the emotional connection between immediate family members is usually closer, which can provide strong psychological and social support for donors and recipients, helping them better cope with the stress and challenges of the transplant process. From the perspective of ethical review, limiting donors to immediate family members can help simplify the review process, because immediate family relationships are relatively easy to verify and usually do not involve complex conflicts of interest. At the same time, immediate family donations are more likely to ensure that donors make decisions based on full understanding and voluntariness, which helps protect the autonomy and welfare of donors.
Finally, social and cultural factors also have an impact on such restrictions. In many cultures, the family is regarded as the core support system of an individual, and immediate family donations are regarded as a manifestation of mutual support and sacrifice among family members.
In summary, relative kidney transplantation has an important position in the field of kidney transplantation, but in order to ensure its safety, effectiveness and ethics, relevant regulations and approval procedures must be strictly followed. For the specific ethical approval process of our hospital, please go to “Preoperative Ethical Preparation for Living Relative Donor Kidney Transplantation”. The above is all the content for today. If you find this article useful, please follow, like, read, and share it to your friends circle. For more popular knowledge about kidney transplantation, see you next time.
