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Transplants using organs harvested from a brain-dead donor began at several hospitals Aug. 10 after the man's family gave its consent the previous day in the first such case under the revised transplant law.

The revision to the organ transplant law enforced July 17 allows transplants in the absence of prior written consent from a donor if approval of the family is obtained.

The donor, a man in his 20s who was involved in a traffic accident in Chiba Prefecture, was officially declared brain dead at a hospital in the Kanto region Aug. 9. His family agreed to donate his organs, saying that although he hadn't consented in writing, he had voiced such wishes, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network.

An operation to provide the man's heart to a recipient began upon its arrival shortly past 6:30 a.m. Aug. 10 at a national institute in Osaka, after doctors began at 3:14 a.m. to harvest the man's organs at a hospital in the Kanto region. (Kyodo News)

改正法施行後初、家族承諾で臓器移植手術

本人の書面による意思表示なしに、家族の承諾だけで臓器移植を可能にした改正臓器移植法に基づく、初の脳死からの臓器移植が行なわれた。

Shukan ST: August 20, 2010

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