Organ Transplants

It is not an organ which contains the immunosuppressive drugs used to prevent rejection - the drugs are manufactured in a laboratory, in the same manner that something as simple as Paracetamol would be manufactured. These drugs can then be given to the transplant recipient orally (including via a nasal-gastric tube) or via an IV drip.

There is no exact model to predict survival rates; however, those with transplants have a 58% chance of surviving 15 years.

An organ transplant can cause tissue rejection, where the patient's immune system tries to destroy the transplanted organ, because the foreign organ is mistaken for pathogens.

if the organ you get is compatible with your body, and functions properly; that's a good thing. if the opposite happens, it's bad. I think that it saves peoples life's so that they can have a second chance in life so i would say its a good thing.

At this moment, it is impossible to transplant a brain.

A person's immune system is designed to detect and destroy things that get into the body that are not part of that person's body. This works well for germs and viruses and keeps the person healthy.

When you transplant an organ such as a kidney into a person's body, then it will be attacked by the person's immune system (rejected) because the body will detect that is is not of that person's body. The drugs suppress this rejection response and allow the new kidney to function without being rejected.

sure,why i gods name cant you u dumb finger banger

There are many dangers of a lung transplant. The main complications are rejection of the donor lung, and infections. There are also side effects associated with the medication that the patient will need to take. The risk of complications is quite high, in the first year after surgery, gradually improving to 51% after 5 years.

My husband had a heart transplant last year at this time at 2012 e not the same man. very depressed sleeps all day no motivation not himself dont know what to do everything ith the heart is fine . But his mental status is not he might have a good day once in a great while., but then it kicks right back to this person I dont even know weve been married 43years and its like I dont know him anymore I feel like I am all alone even though hes still here due to the transplant ve never seen nothin like it Im am seeking councel fohim but will he go thats what worries me Dawn

The survival rate is higher than cadaveric donor survival rates.

For kidney transplants, which require a tissue match as well as a blood type match, it is more likely that a sibling/parent/relative will have the right type of tissue. Waiting for a non-related organ to become available can take 3-5 years, by which point the patient can be really ill. Plus dialysis many times a week is a nuisance.

With a donated kidney from someone related, you know what day you're having the surgery (no waiting for a random phone call), you know that somebody did not have to die for it and you don't need to spend years on dialysis.

Most other organ transplants do not require tissue typing (i.e heart, lungs, liver, pancreas), but still blood typing and size matching, which means that a stranger is just as likely to be a match as a realtive. But for hearts, lungs etc... you clearly can't take these from a living sibling. (You can take part of a liver, or rarely part of a lung, but not an entire lung, since this would compromise their quality of life). In these cases, a cadaveric donation is necessary.

There are some major negatives of getting an organ from a sibling. If the transplant your require is for an autoimmune disease, getting an organ that is related to you will usually mean that the disease will recur in the transplanted organ. (Since you're body thinks it's too genetically similar to your own.) Related transplants for autoimmune diseases typically have really bad outcomes (retransplantation or death). That's the major downside. Others include possilby compromising the sibling's health.

I would definitely call and ask your doctor this question. Sometimes even any doctor will answer a general question like this. I asked my doctor about this at my appoinment today and she said that she would not advise eating kidney only because you don't know what was injected into the cow before it died and it could contain harmful toxins.

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. The surgery took place in Boston, Massachusetts.

If more organ transplants actually occur than the amount of donors that there are, this means that each donor has donated more than one part of themselves. Theoretically, one donor can save up to 8 lives (heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, small intestine) - the liver can be split into two pieces, one small enough for a child, the other big enough for an adult. Kidneys come in twos, so can save two lives. Thus the amount of organ transplants carried out could (theoretically) be 8 times the number of organ donors available. (However this is unlikely, since one donor is not necessarily the right size, the right tissue type and the right blood group for 8 people on the organ transplant waiting list.)

In safe doses (1g 4 times in 24 hours) it will be no problem.

Paracetamol is metabolised by the Liver not the kidneys.

You can be any age to get a kidney disease.

Rejection is a big problem in organ transplants. White cells in the blood patrol our bodies searching for and attacking things that are not made by our own bodies. This is normally useful, since our bodies get rid of of many diseases in this way. However, the white cells will also 'see' that a new organ has been made somewhere else and attack it. Today, many new drugs have been developed to stop the white cells doing this. This means that people who have had transplants can look forward to many years of life.

It seems the anal sphincter, the annular (circular) muscle that opens and closes the anus, can be reconstructed using the gracilis muscles that extend from the tibia (lower leg bone) to the pelvic area. This procedure might be done in cases of severe or total anal incontinence - that is, that the patient has little or no control of the anus.

Since the anus is nothing more than the opening of the rectum and consists only of the sphincter muscle and surrounding tissue, this would pretty much qualify as an anal transplant in my opinion.

Anybody can register as an organ donor. However, if you are asking whether your organs would actually be considered for use upon your death (assuming you died in a suitable way), there is nothing to rule you out from becoming an organ donor, so longs as your organs are still functioning and you do not have any significant medical problems (e.g any form of hepatitis, vCJD, HIV etc...)

You must be at least 18 years of age and no older than 60. An individual must be 18 to donate because marrow donation is a surgical procedure and the person undergoing the procedure must legally be able to give informed consent. A guardian or parent cannot sign a release or give consent because unrelated marrow donation is a voluntary procedure and is not beneficial or life-saving to the donor.

three common concerns of the general public regarding transplants three common concerns of the general public regarding transplants

Not long; for most organs it's a few hours (the longer it takes the worse the outcome)- for some upto 8 hours. Corneas for transplantation last far longer.

Well obviously your kidney has to be failing. but other than that you have to have below 30% function in your kidney. Note: you can survive with only 1 kidney so its more like below 30% function in 1 kidney

When your kidney function is down to 12 -15 % then you will need to do dialysis or have a kidney transplant.

For a transplant the donor's kidney has to be suitable for you. Blood types and tissues types are matched to get as close a match as possible. Some body like a close relative is a good donor.

The donor should have no major health problems and the recipient should have no other major health problems apart from the kidney failure.