Organ transplant is the moving of an organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site. Organ donors can be living or deceased (previously referred to as cadaveric). The emerging field of Regenerative medicine may soon allow organs to be re-grown from the patient's own cells (stem cells, or cells extracted fr...
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Organ transplant is the moving of an organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site. Organ donors can be living or deceased (previously referred to as cadaveric). The emerging field of Regenerative medicine may soon allow organs to be re-grown from the patient's own cells (stem cells, or cells extracted from the failing organs.)
Organs that can be transplanted are the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, intestine, and skin. Tissues include bones, tendons, cornea, heart valves, veins, and arms. Worldwide, the kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organs.
Transplantation medicine is one of the most challenging and complex areas of modern medicine. Some of the key areas for medical management are the problems of transplant rejection, during which the body has an immune response to the transplanted organ, possibly leading to transplant...
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