Transplant Success: Boy Under 10 Gets Heart of Girl Under 6

November 25, 2014

(The Japan Times) – Under the revised organ transplant law, organs can be taken from anyone regardless of their age with family consent, unless the individual in question has explicitly refused to donate. But tougher brain-death criteria are applied to children under 6. It is the second case of organ transplantation from someone aged 6 since the law took effect in 2010.