[Some ethical considerations, especially identity, during xenotransplantation].
Provided that a pandemic due to retroviruses or prions eventually transmitted by animals is under control, in accordance with the fundamental ethical rule to serve the best interest of the patient, any organ xenotransplantation raises an important ethical dilemma: how to deliver proper and adapted information to the patient on the preservation of his identity. Xenotransplantation of any part of the brain seems to us unethical.
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Universit¿e Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris VI, F¿ed¿eration europ¿eenne des r¿eseaux de coop¿eration scientifique et technique, r¿eseau europ¿een de coop¿eration scientifique M¿edecine et droits de l'Homme, formation ¿a la bio¿ethique, Hoenheim, France.
D000818:Animals; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012449:Safety; D012649:Self Concept; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards*
Quelques consid¿erations ¿ethiques, notamment sur l'identit¿e, lors de x¿enotransplantations.