Living kidney donation from a death row inmate.
Publication/Presentation Date
3-12-2025
Abstract
We report on living kidney donation from a prison inmate on death row. Thirty years ago, we were involved in an unusual set of circumstances that we assumed would never arise again. That assumption is incorrect as a current death row inmate wishes to be a living kidney donor and we speak now to describe the lessons learned and to help others. This report is focused on living donation, excluding posthumous donation, and discusses the ethical, legal, medical, and logistic considerations underpinning prisoner donation for both the general prison population and death row inmates. We believe inmates on death row can be considered as living organ donors and the ethical, logistic, and medical hurdles surmounted to enable donation. This experience with death row inmates should serve to encourage donations from the general prison population.
ISSN
1600-6143
Published In/Presented At
Moritz, M. J., Radomski, J. S., & Moritz, C. E. (2025). Living kidney donation from a death row inmate. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, S1600-6135(25)00136-4. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2025.03.007
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
40086752
Department(s)
Department of Surgery
Document Type
Article