0 a living person who gives one of their organs for a transplant (= an operation to put a new organ into a sick person's body):
In the psychosocial assessment prior to a transplant, it is difficult to estimate the expected benefit to a living donor.
As noted earlier, partial-liver living donor transplants are already in use.
With transplantation is also the need to discuss the acquisition of the donated organ, whether from a cadaveric source or from a living donor.
The living donor must not receive remuneration of any kind, other than compensation to cover inconveniences following the operation, to be determined by national regulations.
In these cases the material comes from the living donor.
Donation should also be voluntary, and therefore requires obligatory informed and written consent by the living donor.
The principle of non-payment does not apply to cases of so-called compensation, where a living donor may receive a contribution in line with the expenditure related to donation.
In the living donor, such presentation of "self" antigens helped maintain "self" tolerance.
