Age cap on recipients of brain-dead organ transplants

Age cap on recipients of brain-dead organ transplants

OKAYAMA, Japan - Takahiro Oto (L), an associate professor at Okayama University, speaks with a woman in Okayama in April 2012, after she received a lung transplant from living donors in February 2012. The woman, who suffered from interstitial pneumonia, initially hoped to receive a transplant from a brain-dead donor but she was barred from joining the waiting list by the upper age limit for recipients of organ transplants from brain-dead donors.

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