Ethical considerations in uterus 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...

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 ...

Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Transplantation

There is great interest worldwide in discovering and developing a permanent source of tissues which would be capable of generating any cell type and which would avoid the problem of transplant rejection. Stem cells are cells that can specialize into the many different cells found in the human body. The ethical objections concerning stem cells have focused primarily on their source. Human embry...