Organ Transplants

may be you should consult your transplant surgeon immediately

I don't think it is.

It's giving something you can do without and using that to improve the quality of life, or length of life of someone who needs it.

But some have religious beliefs that the body must stay intact, or that it's somehow a sin to receive a body part, or even blood from someone else.

And some just think that the whole idea is a bit gross.

These days no, but it depends what kind of transplant you have. The common ones - liver, kidney, heart, lungs, pancreas, small intestine and cornea are no longer considered experimental. However transplanting other things such as limbs, faces, reproductive organs etc... are still experimental.

That sounds like the process of organ retrieval from the donor.

Kidney transplants are most often carried out (which indicates that they are needed frequently). However persuading donors to donate their liver is particularly difficult, due to popular misconceptions about the person who may receive their liver (i.e alcoholics or drug users). Thus livers are 'needed' more often than kidneys are, since there's fewer livers to go around.

Not currently, however it's still being researched. At the moment, the cells can be cloned, but do not grow to full size organs. That's probably 7-10 years away for livers and slightly longer for most other organs (since livers are only made of one type of cell, and are not required to "beat" like a heart).

First successful kidney transplant (one identical twin to another, since ciclosporin was not yet discovered).

Organ transplant is one of the most interesting parts of medicine. It's actually replacing an organ when it can no longer perform its functions properly (due to disease or trauma) or even become dangerous for the body, with a healthy organ. A transplant involves two key persons: the receiver and the donor.

According to the Turkish Health Ministry, international patients can have organ transplants as long as they come in Turkey together with their donor.

The donor has to be at least 18 years old, mentally balanced, related to the recipient (up to forth degree: mother, father, child, grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, sibling, maternal or paternal aunt, uncle, cousin, children of third degree relatives), or his or her spouse.

When arriving to the clinic, if the donor is the recipient's relative, all the donor's necessary documents (notarized) should be provided. If the recipient has no relative, he/she can bring a friend as a donor; in this case, both the recipient and the donor should provide their passports.

Also, the donor shouldn't have medical conditions and shouldn't be overweight. The patient and the donor have to be compatible (blood groups).

Organ Transplant Clinics in Turkey:

*Offer customized packages and treatment plans to all of their patients

*Consider each patient's specific needs

*Offer flawless medical services

*Are fully equipped

*Use the latest technology and supplies

*Have a friendly, attentive staff

*Provide a comfortable, professional environment

*Have highly trained, experienced, certified and appreciated doctors

Organ Transplant Clinics in Turkey You Can Visit:

Acibadem Healthcare Group, Istanbul, Turkey

Kent International Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Rituximab is used to treat lymphomas, leukemia, auto immune illness and transplant organ rejection. It is available under the trade names Rituxan and MabThera.

In most UK liver transplant centres, it is not considered "routine" practice to do a liver biopsy several weeks after transplant if the patient has a normal liver function. However some centres will offer a liver biopsy at 3 year, 5 year and/or 10 year intervals, regardless of how good the liver function happens to be.

Within several weeks of transplant the possibility of liver rejection is highest, so if rejection is even at all to be suspected of occurring a biopsy will be taken pretty swiftly.

Yes, it is safe for a kidney donor to keep pets after surgery.

The kidney recipient should be slightly careful, due to the immunosuppressive drugs - this basically amounts to either getting someone else to clean up after the animal (I love this excuse), or wearing gloves to clean up after the animal. Also, through handwashing after petting/ before meals is advised. Keeping birds as pets is not advisable for anyone immunosuppressed, due to a particular bacteria found in the faeces of birds.

Yeah

Normally "no carbonated drinks" (sometimes coupled with "clear fluids only") is a rule generally used for the day before surgery which specifically needs a clear view of the digestive system, such as an endoscopy. Carbonation or opaque fluids would obscure the view.

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and the heart and lungs are quite common.

The person recieving the kidney does not normally require two, so long as the donated kidney is working fully. Usually a "kidney transplant recipient" just means that they've gained one extra kidney (since the originals are not normally removed) - this is the standard procedure. However a transplanted kidney has a life of about ten - 15 years, which means that eventually they may need to be transplanted again.

I'm guessing yes, there's alot of diabetics in North America.

Dr. Kantrowitz transplanted the heart of a brain-dead baby to another infant Dec. 6, 1967, days after Christiaan Barnard had pioneered the operation in South Africa. The American baby died after six hours.

In the spring. In some mild areas, fall transplanting is fine or even recommended, as trees will not dry out during winter. In areas of very cold and dry winters, however, fall-transplanted trees are likely to be seriously damaged by moisture stresses caused by transplanting and winter drying.

The worst time to move evergreens is right after the season's flush of new growth has begun. This growth is very "thin skinned," leading to rapid water loss, and almost certain dieback.

Transplant recipients, particularly those receiving bone marrow or heart transplants, are highly susceptible to Aspergillus, which may be circulating in the hospital air

It was developed by a team of medical technicians working under Dr. Roland Hetzer in Berlin- hence the name. It isn't really a completely artificial heart, but a 'ventricular assist device' intended for use in children and youngsters of 17 and under. It works in conjunction with the patient's own damaged real organ, helping it to function better until a donor organ can be found for transplantation.

It was approved for use in the United States on 16th December 2011, and has since been an invaluable life-saver for several young children, helping to keep them alive until a donor organ can be found.

Not unless the hypertension has actually resulted in damage to the kidney. If the hypertension is relatively controlled, your kidney function is fine and your overall health is fine, there should be no reason for you not to be a living kidney donor.

Depends what the transplant is. 99.9% of patients will require some form of immuno-suppressant, which they will take permanently. This is usually either Tacrolimus, Azathioprine, Mycophenolate, Sirolimus or Ciclosporin. Usually Prednisolone will also be involved (at least for a while). There may be something like Omeprazole/Ranitadine, for if you are getting acid reflux from the drugs that you have to take. There may also be drugs to improve the function of whatever you had transplanted - i.e general heart or liver medication. You may need a drug to lower blood pressure, since immuno-suppressants all tend to raise blood pressure. And initially after the transplant you will be prescribed anti-virals, anti-biotics, something to prevent blood clots, possibly an anti-fungal (since you will be on a high-dose of immuno-suppressants at this time, your immune system severly weakened). You'll be on a lot of drugs initially after transplant, but you won't stay on all of them forever.

The failed organ from the recipient will usually be removed (except in the case of "normal" kidney transplants, where the recipients original kidneys are kept in place and a transplanted kidney is added).

Once the organ is removed, if consent from the patient has been given for their organ to be used in research, their failed organ will be taken to the lab (normally in the same hospital as the transplant operation). This is where it will be analysed to double-check the cause of it's failure (cause of failure is normally established far in advance of a transplant operation, but it should be verified). Any unusual patches will be noted/photographed and studied if necessary (if it's an interesting specimen). If it is a particularly interesting specimen it may be preserved, either whole or on slides, or as a computerized 3D image. Once the organ has served it's purpose in the lab, it will be incinerated as medical waste.

If the patient did not give consent for their organ to be used in medical research, their failed organ will simply be incinerated as medical waste.

When the body's cells reject the transplanted heart,