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Bagher Larijani, Farzaneh Zahedi, Fatemeh Shidfar,
Volume 4, Issue 0 (2-2005)
Abstract
Background: In recent years, many progresses have been confirmed in the field of medicine. Transplantation is one of the instances which have had rapid improvements. Human and nonhuman organs and tissues, embryo, fetus and even the human stem cells have been used for transplantation. The researches in this field have lead to the more functional and new methods. Regarding the ethical problems would prevent the future dangers of human being and society. The researchers’ duty is to respect all of the ethical points associated with the transplantation. In this article, the researches on corps, samples of human tissues and especially in embryo and fetus have been discussed.
Methods: For compilation of the article, we searched articles by means of PubMed, Medline, and Ovid and so we concerned some books.
Results & Conclusion: In transplantation researches on corps, the patient’s consent in advance (before death) or the relatives consent is important. In Islam respect to the dead Muslim is highly insisted. In human tissue researches the reason of tissue collection, kind and amount of it, research use and non-beneficence use of the research results have to be significantly considered. In recent years, the researches on embryo and fetus have been attenuated. This kind of research despite of its advantages has brought many ethical questions in consent acquisition, viability or non-viability of the embryo and fetus and the permission of research confirmation. In this review article it has been tried to regard all of the current ethical problems in this field, wishing this article to be a guide for more extensive researches.
Ali Jafarian, Saeedeh Sadeghi, Alireza Parsapour, Hasan Emami Razavi,
Volume 5, Issue 0 (10-2005)
Abstract
Background: Nowadays, many progresses have been occurred in medical science and transplantation process. Transplantation is now a life- saving standard treatment for some end stage diseases. Although the organs from brain death donors, are the best resource for cadaverous transplantation, there are many controversies among physicians about it's definition. The other important issue in transplantation is disparity between the supply and demand of organs. Because of the increasing demand for cadaverous organs it is necessary to use some new methods to fascilitate the availability of these resources. What is noteworthy is that each of these methods has some essential ethical issues that should be observed. Surely regarding these issues would prevent the future harms to human being and society.
Methods: For compiling the article, we searched in pubmed and ovid databases for keywords of cadaverous transplantation, brain death, medical ethics, informed consent.
Results: In this article, after a review of transplantation statistics in Iran and other countries we presented a definition for brain death and some methods to expand donor pools. Then ethical views in brain death and informed consent process for cadaverous organs transplantation was discussed.
Conclusion: In using cadaverous organs for transplantation, informed consent and respect to autonomy are very important. All people in the society are authorized to accept or refuse organ donation after their death and , physicians can only encourage and support them.
