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To examine ethical challenges and fairness implications for blood group O patients in transplant protocols permitting incompatible living donors to exchange organs with the cadaver donor pool.

December 13, 2005American Journal of TransplantationOpen Access

Organ Exchanges: Fairness to the O-Blood Group

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To examine ethical challenges and fairness implications for blood group O patients in transplant protocols permitting incompatible living donors to exchange organs with the cadaver donor pool.
Ethical analysis of transplant policy variances allowing incompatible living kidney donor-recipient pairs to swap into deceased donor pools.
Identifies two primary moral objections regarding the distribution and equity of deceased donor organs under living-donor swap variances.
Highlights disproportionate allocation disadvantages and fairness concerns specifically affecting waitlisted type O kidney transplant candidates.

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Ethical evaluation reveals fairness concerns for type O candidates in cadaver organ exchanges, highlighting moral objections to swapping living donor kidneys.

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Robert M. Veatch (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a77bad1576efb0ddaf791d1 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-6143.2005.01164.x

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Ethical evaluation reveals fairness concerns for type O candidates in cadaver organ exchanges, highlighting moral objections to swapping living donor kidneys.

Organ Exchanges: Fairness to the O-Blood Group

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