Organ transplant - Autograft

Successful inter-human allotransplants have a relatively long history; the operative skills were present long before the necessities for post-operative survival were discovered. Rejection and the side effects of preventing rejection (especially infection and nephropathy) were, are, and may always be the key problem. Several apocryphal accounts of transplants exist well prior to the scientific understanding and advancements that would be necessary for them to have actually occurred. The Chinese physician Pien Ch-iao reportedly exchange ...

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Organ transplant - Steroid-Free Immunosuppression. Steroid-free immunosuppression is being pioneered on large scale with use of Campath-1H (a humanized monoclonal antibody developed at Cambridge Pathology Laboratories) induction at Northwestern University in Chicago and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. This would avoid the side-effects of steroids. While short-term outcomes are outstanding, long-term outcomes are still unknown. Organ transplan ...

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Organ transplant - Split Liver Transplants. Sometimes, a deceased-donor liver may be divided between two recipients, especially an adult and a child. This is uncommon as the outcomes are worse for both patients than had they received the whole organ. Organ transplant - Domino Transplants. This operation is usually performed for cystic fibrosis as both lungs need to be replaced and it is a technically easier operation to replace the heart and lungs en bloc. As the recipient's na ...

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Organ transplant - Living. In living donors, the donor remains alive and donates a renewable tissue, cell, or fluid (e.g. blood, skin); or donates an organ or part of an organ in which the remaining organ can regenerate or take on the workload of the rest of the organ (primarily single kidney donation, partial donation of liver, small bowel, or pancreas). Living related donors donate to family members or friends in whom they have an emotional investment. The risk of surgery is offset by the psychological benefit of not losing someone related to them, or not seeing them s ...

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Organ transplant - Solid Organs. Heart (Deceased-donor only) Lung (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor) En bloc Heart/Lung (Deceased-donor only) Liver (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor) Kidney (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor) Pancreas (Deceased-donor and rarely Living-Donor) Small bowel (Small Intestine) (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor) Kidney-Pancreas (Sometimes simultaneous, sometimes in separate procedures) (Deceased-d ...

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Organ transplant - Autograft. A transplant of tissue from one to oneself. Sometimes this is done with surplus tissue, or tissue that can regenerate, or tissues more desperately needed elsewhere (examples include skin grafts, vein extraction for CABG, etc.) Sometimes this is done to remove the tissue and then treat it or the person, before returning it (examples include stem-cell autograft and storing blood in advance of surgery.)

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