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What list is a person placed on when they are approved for a heart transplant?
A person approved for heart transplantation is placed on the heart transplant waiting list of a heart transplant center.
Who can help you with fund to be put on lung transplant list?
The cost of a lung transplant is quite high and can cost about $400,000 for a single lung transplant and $800,000 for a double lung transplant. You can receive help from anyone to come up with the funds to be put on the lung transplant list.
How do you get on a list to receive an organ transplant?
You have a "transplant assessment" at a transplant hospital. It usually involves ultrasounds, blood tests, MRI's, EEG's, ECG's, psychological assessments and a chest x-ray. (But that depends on what transplant you need). If, at the end of all that you are considered a suitable candidate for a transplant, your name is added to the waiting list for a transplant by the hospital's transplant coordinator.
What is waiting list?
a wait list is a list in which you wait to be contacted for a reason which could be a heart transplant or it could be an adopting list.
How does a patient get on a waiting list for a new heart?
A person approved for heart transplantation is placed on the heart transplant waiting list of a heart transplant center. All patients on a waiting list are registered with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
What problems do the number of donors and the number of people receiving transplants and the number of people on the transplant list show?
Because few people donate their organs, the list of people on the transplant list exceed the supply. If more doners join the doner list more people will benefit.
How are kidneys allocated for transplant?
Kidney allocation is based on a mathematical formula that awards points for factors that can affect a successful transplant, such as time spent on the transplant list, the patient's health status, and age.
How do you find out if you are registered for organ transplant?
To find out if you are on the waiting list for an organ transplant, talk to the transplant coordinator at the hospital that your are registered with. If you wish to find out if you are a registered organ donor (in the UK), look at www.organdonation.nhs.uk/
Do you have to wait until you are on a liver transplant list to get a living donor liver transplant?
Part of the reason for being placed on a "transplant list" is to wait until a matching donor is found. At that point, the donor is an unknown, only a possibility. However, if you can find a willing person and if the test results match compatibility with your tissues and blood type, then the "waiting list" is not needed. Your next obstacle would be to have insurance willing to pay. With all of those factors met, you'd have the transplant.
What are the advantages of kidney dialysis over kidney transplant?
There aren't really any advantages over a kidney transplant, as dialysis is used to keep patients alive while they wait for a transplant. Patients are always on the waiting list for a transplant, which shows that there isn't really any benefit.
What happens when you have kidney failiure?
if your kidneys fail completely, then you can go on a transplant list and get a kidney transplant if your kidneys are failing the doctors will put you on dialysis ... trying to keep your blood clean... eventually your kidneys will fail and then you will get a transplant
What if you can't get on the transplant list for a heart?
If you cannot get on a transplant list, there is probably a genuine reason why transplantation is unlikey to work for you. Criteria for going on the waiting list include a minimum of 50% likely hood that you will be alive in 5 years after the transplant (which is actually quite a low requirement, when you consider it). There is also an assessment which analyses your likelihood of adhering to the strict drug regime required after transplantation - clearly having a transplant but not adhering to the aftercare makes the original transplant quite useless. However very few people are actually ruled out on this latter criteria. What's more likely to happen, if for some almost minor reason you should not be on the waiting list, is that you will be added to the list (to save "disappointment"), then organs will be allocated according to "need" and "best chance of a decent quality of life afterwards". Having said that, most patients know on some level whether they have been added to the list "to avoid disappointment", or whether they really have a chance of getting a transplant. If you can't get on a waiting list, your alternatives include trying a different country, taking part in experimental trials, and possibly forms of pacemaker surgery.
