How can doctors ensure that a transplanted organ works sucessfully?

Which substances produced in the body are directly responsible for rejection of a transplanted organ?

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5 organs that can be successfully transplanted?

Heart, kidneys, lungs, liver, pancreas, corneas, and small intestine are all commonly transplanted. Almost everything can be transplanted, it's whether the transplant is "successful" that's the problem. Brains are never successfully transplanted. Faces are only just successful. Limbs can be but usually are not, since they are not essential for life. It is whether the organ is essential for life that dictates whether it is commonly transplanted or not.

What is a function of all organ system?

The role of organ system is ensure that the entire body works properly.

Which Organ transplant are the most successful?

To a certain extent that depends upon the definition of "successful" - it could be considered to be "lowest mortality rate", "longest life expectancy after surgery", "most likely to result in a functioning graft (transplanted organ)". Depending on which criteria you use, the answer will be slightly different.Kidney transplants have the lowest mortality rate due to a combination of reasons. Primarily, when a kidney is transplanted, the recipient's original kidneys are not removed. It is simply a case of adding a third, which hopefully works. But in turn, this does mean that if the transplanted kidney does not work, the patient should not be considerably worse off than they were pre-transplant. At this stage they would go back on dialysis until another kidney was found.Another reason for a low mortality rate for kidney transplants compared to other organ transplants is the availability of living-related donors. This means that there are more kidneys available for transplantation, which in turn means that patients are marginally "healthier" when they receive a kidney transplant, compared to transplant recipients of other organs. The healthier the patient is, the better the outcome after transplant (but of course, a completely healthy patient would not need a transplant. It's all relative.)However, the "lifespan" of a transplanted kidney is lowerthan for other organs such as livers and hearts (and this is why the answer to your question is not clear-cut). To clarify, I mean lifespan of the transplanted organ is lower, not the lifespan of the person who received the transplant; retransplantation of a failing graft is quite commonplace. (At which point the first transplanted kidney would probably be removed and replaced by another transplanted kidney).The reason behind a transplanted kidney's reduced lifespan is because kidneys are directly responsible for having to filter out immunosuppressives and other medication a transplant recipient has to take. These medications are necessary to ensure the short-term health of the graft but in the long run they cause some kidney damage (regardless of what organ was transplanted). But the damaging effect of the drugs (called "nephrotoxicity") is slightly magnified in kidney transplant recipients.Next to kidneys, livers have the second lowest mortality rate of transplant. This is slightly remarkable, since there is not an (good) equivalent of "dialysis" for liver failure, meaning there is no fallback to help a patient's health to remain stable. By the time a patient is ill enough to reach the top of a waiting list for a liver or heart transplant, they are very ill indeed. And at this point it's quite extraordinary that the numbers of patients surviving the transplant surgery is as high as it is.

Which organs can be transplanted?

Organs that can be transplanted include the heart, the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs- also the cornea of the eye. Up until recently, lung transplantation on it's own was very difficult, and was only succesful if done in conjunction with a heart transplant at the same time. However, in recent years there has been increasing success in transplanting lungs on their own. In the early 1980s, some research was done into pancreas transplantation, but this proved unsuccesful and remains a problem that has yet to be overcome. The one organ that will NEVER be able to be transplanted is the brain- it'll forever be a complete impossibility, and is purely confined to science fiction.

How can doctors ensure that a transplanted organ works sucessfully?

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Which substances produced in the body are directly responsible for rejection of a transplanted organ?

5 organs that can be successfully transplanted?

What is a function of all organ system?

Which Organ transplant are the most successful?

Which organs can be transplanted?

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