Organ Transplants

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.

pros: * cheap * abundant * no moral conflicts. (maybe just a little) * more Donors * easy to get hold of cons: * never the right size. * requires close watch on the donar vs host rejection snydrome as the immune system find them really easy to spot. * Ethicly wrong

potential kidney recipients must undergo a comprehensive physical evaluation. In addition to the compatibility testing, radiological tests, urine tests, and a psychological evaluation will be performed.

Pacemaker implantation is a invasive surgical procedure, internal bleeding, infection, hemorrhage, and embolism are all possible complications. Infection is more common in patients with temporary pacing systems.

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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.

Tissue typing involves checking that the organ destined for transplant has the same tissue type as the patient that is due to receive the organ requires. Tissue typing is usually only done on kidney transplants - other organs only require matching bloodtype and size.

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Organs to be transplanted lack oxygen, nutrients and other essential materials, since they have been idle for a long time.

Osmosis and diffusion help these organs filled with these essential materials, such as water, nutrients and materials, as if they were attached in the human body.

BTW, osmosis is the flow of water from less concentration of solutes to high. Diffusion is the scattering of particles from higher cont to lower.

Permanently post-transplant. i.e forever. (for 99.9% of cases. There's always a few exceptions, e.g for identical twins).

To prevent rejection you need to take immunosupressive medication. These medications lower/suppress your immune system so it won't attack the transplanted organ.

cyclosporin, mycophenolate, tacrolimus are examples of immune suppressing medication.

It's really a personal preference to become an organ donor. You can always ask a person if they are and if they're not, persuade them other wise ... but it may come off as strange. You can also make start a campaign ad stating how many lives are saved by donors and how you should become one to help someone in need. Other than that, making people do things is frowned upon.

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The first organ transplant occurred in 1954, when Ronald Lee Herrick donated one of his kidneys to his brother, Richard. The surgery was led by Dr. Joseph Murray, who later won a Nobel prize for developing the surgical technique regarding kidney transplants.

Because kidney dialysis, although effective, is not a long term solution due to the huge amount of time it requires. Dialysis is just not convenient - for a patient with very little kidney function, dialysis it takes up a vast amount of time each week, is not possible to do on holidays, and women cannot have children whist on dialysis.

Whereas a kidney transplant is far more portable than a dialysis machine, does allow the possibility of children, and does not require a vast amount of maintenance per week. Although it does require daily medication and periodic check-ups, for most people it is still the "easier" long-term solution, compared to dialysis.

Yes, because when you need a transplant your sick. You can only get a transplant if you need it.

No I just found out you can't. If you were sick and you got a new organ that wasn't used to your body, that would be double the trouble. why? Because The bacteria from you being sick would affect your new organ. also it would be doubled bad because your other body parts (Around the new organ) would think that the new organ was trying to talk over you body. so they would attack the organ. but most people take medicine for that but they have to take it for the rest of there lives.

There is no such thing as a perfect match for organ transplants as everyone has unique antigens (the proteins on cells that say who the cells came from). If the recipient's immune system detects that the donor organ is from someone else it will destroy it and make things even worse for the patient. To avoid this, recipients take immunosupressants which are drugs to decrease the effect the immune response of the recipient can have. The less close a match between the donor and receiver the more stronger the drugs that must be taken. The unfortunate side effect of taking these drugs is that the immune response is less effective at fighting diseases too, so a cold virus finds it much easier to take hold.

In 2013 there were 1,923 lung transplants performed in the U.S.

Yes, it has been achieved once for womens' reproductive organs - ovaries from a donor, also a uterus from mother to daughter. The overies were used to concieve, but were removed again after the birth (so continous immunosuppression was not necessary). Thus it's not a commonly performed intervention for infertility, however it is possible. The main issue is that transplanted ovaries will result in offspring genetically related to the donor, rather than the recipient. With this in mind, the procedure produces very few benefits when compared to IVF or using donated eggs, or a surrogate.

For men, again it is possible, but again sperm will be genetically related to the donor, not the recipient. Again, it is not a commonplace procedure, and continuous immunosuppression is necessary.

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Treat the patient with medications that decrease the immune system's response.

It depends whether you add the word "successfully" to your question or not. Here's a timeline: http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/in-or-out/transplant-timeline.aspx It includes "successful" and "unsuccessful" attempts at transplanting things.

The answer is obvious. Many of the organs transplanted are organs that people cannot live without. These organs are transplanted from people who have passed on and left it their will to transplant certain organs from their body.