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It is someone who donates a part of themselves to another so that they may live.
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What is a beating-heart transplant?
A beating-heart transplant is a heart transplant operation in which the donor heart is kept full of blood and continues to beat in a machine between donor and recipient.
Can you get rabies from a transplant?
If the donor has rabies, yes.
When the donor is the patient himself it is what type of bone marrow transplant?
Autologous = own marrow Allogeneic = transplant from a related (or tissue matched) donor. Syngeneic = transplant from an identical twin.
How is it possible for a person to be a living donor for a liver transplantation?
It is possible to transplant part of a liver from a living donor and have both donor and recipient survive.
When can you transplant?
When there is a receiver for your organ, or if you are the receiver, then when there is a potential donor available.
Where does a cadaver transplant come from?
It comes from a dead organ donor
What is a sentence using the word donor?
The heart transplant was delayed because it took longer to remove from the donor. The charity gave an award to its one-millionth donor.
What is Marrow replacement process?
This is bone marrow transplant. A compatible donor should be screen and crossmatch before they can perform the transplant.
What poses a formidable obstacle to a successful organ transplant?
Availability of a suitable donor
What type of bone marrow transplant usues bone marrow from a donor?
allogenic
What is an allogenic transplant?
An "allogenic" transplant is a human-to-human transplant. (A "xenogenic" transplant would be animal-to-human).
What is the purpose of a organ transplant?
Answer: The purpose of an organ transplant is to replace any vital organ not functioning and help revive (partial transplant)/make survival possible by donor organ.
