KUALA LUMPUR: Despite their rigorous training, a team of Malaysian doctors specialising in organ transplants still had to think twice before accepting a pair of kidneys from an Australian woman last Thursday.
The reason is that none of them had ever harvested organs from someone who is in “cardiac death”, or what is also known as donation after cardiac death (DCD).
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