Yazdan Abdolmohammadi, Fariba Ghorbani, Mojtaba Mokhber Dezfuli, Mehdi Haghshenas, Mahdieh Hazrati, Shagin Shahriari, Melika Ghasemi, Mohammad Amin Rahimi Jafari. Korean J Transplant 2022;36:127. https://doi.org/10.4285/ATW2022.F-2500

PURPOSE OF REVIEW All current organ procurement policies require some form of consent. Many families refuse to permit organ recovery from a recently deceased relative; therefore, the major cost of requiring consent is the loss of some lives that could have been saved through transplantation. Here, we argue for a much more efficient approach to organ procurement from brain dead individuals - rou...

Carbon monoxide intoxication is a well-known cause of hypoxic injury primarily to the central nervous system and myocardium, but the bowel may be also vulnerable. Patients succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning are usually considered unsuitable for organ procurement and they are routinely rejected in many transplant centers. As the organ supply is by far insufficient to meet the needs of patie...

In this paper I explore the human organ procurement system. Which is better for saving lives and limiting black market use, the present altruistic system of donations or a free and open sales market? I explain that there is a risk with maintaining the present system, the altruistic vision, and that people may die who might otherwise live if the sale of organs was permitted. But there is no guar...

This article presents a review of Hard to Believe, a compelling documentary reporting the forced organ procurement and death of Chinese prisoners of conscience. The documentary is targeted to ignite political and public pressure to stop these practices that are thought to be motivated by financial and political gain. Narrated by journalist and author Ethan Gutmann, the documentary pricks at the...

In the United States, organ and tissue procurement has been organized in such a way so as to maximize availability in an efficient fashion that is fair to both donor and recipient. There is a growing cooperation between organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and tissue recovery organizations to facilitate meeting the requirements of both organ and tissue procurement. Successful tissue preservat...

Pediatric organ donation and organ transplantation can have a significant life-extending benefit to the young recipients of these organs and a high emotional impact on donor and recipient families. Pediatricians, pediatric medical specialists, and pediatric transplant surgeons need to be better acquainted with evolving national strategies that involve organ procurement and organ transplantation...

For many years, the authorisation of organ procurement has been discussed as a contributory factor to the number of potential organ donors. This paper presents different forms of authorisation and their influence on the decisions of both individuals and society. The general legal framework for the authorisation of organ procurement in Poland is described along with the solutions implemented by ...