After two botched tests, doctors at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture, on Wednesday finally declared a patient legally brain dead but were unable to use any of the organs for transplant.
The patient, described only as a woman in her 60s hospitalized after a stroke, had consented to donate her organs for transplant upon her death. The Japan Organ Transplant Network said, however, that none of her organs was suitable for transplant.
This is the first time that all the organs donated for transplant by a brain-dead donor have been rejected on medical grounds.