Ethical considerations in face transplantation

Pediatric facial transplantation: Ethical considerations.

Facial transplantation is becoming increasingly accepted as a method of reconstructing otherwise unreconstructable adult faces. As this modality is made more available, we must turn our attention to pediatric patients who may benefit from facial transplantation. In the current article, the authors present and briefly examine the most pressing ethical challenges posed by the possibility of perfo...

Sociological considerations in face transplantation.

Barker et al’s thoughts on face transplantation were most interesting, thought provoking and controversial.1 Surgery is not a subject with whom one outside of the medical profession feels comfortable and facial surgery would certainly not be considered an after-dinner topic. It is for reasons of human discomfort with facial disfigurement that such developments are viewed as a leap as opposed to...

Ethical considerations regarding head transplantation

Extension of organ transplantation: some ethical considerations.

The concept of vital organ transplantation is critically analyzed by considering how traditional transplantation modifies the commitment to saving lives. Problems such as those associated with immunosuppression might seem to provide a compelling reason to oppose extension of transplantation to non-lifesaving situations. A closer examination, however, shows that immunosuppression does not presen...

eComment. Tracheobronchial trauma in lung transplantation: ethical considerations.

et al. Role of conservative medical management of tracheobronchial injuries. et al. Successful bilateral lung transplant from a donor with a tracheal right upper lobe bronchus. I was interested to read Miyamoto et al.'s case report on successful bilateral lung transplantation from a deceased donor with a ruptured main bronchus, and to read how their hypothesis was put directly into practice to ...