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  • Medical Ethics
  • Transplantation Surgery
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Serial living organ donation involves individuals donating a second organ (e.g., kidney then liver lobe) after an initial donation.
  • While single organ donation ethics are established, serial donation's ethical landscape remains largely unexplored.
  • Key ethical principles include respecting donor autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To conduct an ethical analysis of serial living solid organ donation using Principlism.
  • To identify and examine the unique ethical challenges posed by serial organ donation compared to single donation.

Main Methods:

  • Ethical analysis utilizing the framework of Principlism.
  • Review of existing ethical considerations for single organ donation and their application to serial donation.

Main Results:

  • Serial donation intensifies ethical issues of single donation, particularly concerning donor autonomy due to uncertain long-term risks and increased coercion potential.
  • Non-maleficence is challenged by heightened surgical risks from prior surgery.
  • Beneficence outcomes are unknown, and pathological altruism emerges as a novel ethical concern threatening all core principles.

Conclusions:

  • Long-term physical and psychological risks of serial donation require research to uphold ethical principles.
  • Increased understanding of pathological altruism in living organ donors is crucial.
  • Enhanced psychological assessments are needed to detect potentially harmful motivations in serial donors.