Will you give my kidney back?

What is it about?

If a living kidney donor becomes in need of renal replacement treatment due to dysfunction of the remaining kidney post-donation, can the donor ask the recipient to give back the kidney that has been donated? Low mortality rates of dialysis, and difficulty in getting the second kidney soon, organ restitution may become a future real scenario. We hope our thought experiment has further facilitate the understandings of the nature of living related organ transplantation, especially kidney transplantation.

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Why is it important?

We provide a thought experiment about living donor kidney transplantation. We call this problem organ restitution. This article tackled it for the first time. When considering this problem, we should shed light on not only obligatory aspects between donors and recipients, but also virtuous aspects of them.