Organ transplant: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)
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Encyclopedia: Organ transplant
For botanical transplants, see Transplant (botanical) .
An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial 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).
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How to say "Organ transplant" in other languages:
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(Japanese) | 移植 (医療) |
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(German) | Transplantation |
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(Spanish) | Trasplante |
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(French) | Greffe (médecine) |
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(Italian) | Trapianto di organi |
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In medicine, grafting is a surgical procedure to transplant tissue from an organ, but not the complete organ. The term is most commonly applied to skin grafting. The procedure is very closely related to organ transplanting in risks...
Immunology is the study of the immune system and its reaction to pathogens, as well as its malfunctions (autoimmune diseases, allergies, rejection of organ transplants, immune deficiency). The... managed by doctors of rheumatology (auto-immune disease), nephrology (transplant rejection) and chest...
or foreign substances that enter the body. A person receiving an organ transplant is given these drugs to stop the body from rejecting the new organ or tissue. Cyclosporine and tacrolimus are the... of immunosuppressive drugs, see the transplant rejection page...
immunosuppression in organ transplantation and autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn's disease... Peter Medawar in discovering the immunological basis of rejection of transplanted tissues and organs..., or in combination with other immunosuppressants in organ transplantation. Its most severe side...
which is used in the treatment of acute rejection in organ transplantation, especially in kidney transplants. It is less commonly used than the similar anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG), and like ATG it is associated with cytokine release syndrome in the short term and an increased risk of post-transplant...
Everolimus is a new mTOR inhibitor drug used as an immunosuppressant to prevent rejection of organ transplants. It is related to Sirolimus (Rapamycin), and works in the same way. Everolimus may have a role in heart transplantation as it has been shown to reduce chronic allograft vasculopathy in...
prevent rejection of organ transplants and patients on some forms of chemotherapy. Opportunistic...
A pancreas transplant is an organ transplant that involves replacing the pancreas of a person who... normally. At present, pancreas transplants are usually performed in persons with insulin-dependent diabetes who have severe complications. This is because after the transplant the patient must take...
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is the name given to a group of B cell lymphomas occurring in immunosuppressed patients following organ transplant. It is an uncommon condition... inhibitors (tacrolimus and cyclosporine) used as immunosuppressants in organ transplantation inhibit...
Alessia di Matteo (born July, 2003) is an Italian from Genoa. di Matteo became the first person in history to successfully receive eight organ transplants during the same operation. She was operated on January 31, 2004, in Miami, at the tender age of six months. di Matteo was born with congenital...
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