12 Facts About Organ transplant

1.

Organ transplant donation is possible after cardiac death in some situations, primarily when the person is severely brain-injured and not expected to survive without artificial breathing and mechanical support.

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2.

In 1984, the National Organ Transplant Act was passed; it gave way to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which maintains the organ registry and ensures equitable allocation of organs.

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3.

Organ transplant's then received a second transplant even though she was then in such poor physical shape that she normally would not be considered a good candidate for a transplant.

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4.

Organ transplant donation is against Chinese tradition and culture, and involuntary organ donation is illegal under Chinese law.

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5.

China's transplant programme attracted the attention of international news media in the 1990s due to ethical concerns about the organs and tissue removed from the corpses of executed criminals being commercially traded.

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6.

Organ transplant attributed it to the "force and power of individuality" in his 1596 work De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem.

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7.

The success of this Organ transplant was mostly due to the family relation between the recipient, a Richard Herrick of Maine, and his donor and identical twin brother Ronald.

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8.

Cortisone had been recently discovered and the more effective azathioprine was identified in 1959, but it was not until the discovery of cyclosporine in 1970 that Organ transplant surgery found a sufficiently powerful immunosuppressive.

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9.

Tabarrok found that social pressures resisting the use of transplant organs decreased over time as the opportunity of individual decisions increased.

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10.

Organ transplant allegedly made several trips to see Macchiarini for his complications, and at one point had surgery again to have his synthetic windpipe replaced, but Macchiarini was notoriously difficult to get an appointment with.

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11.

Organ transplant utilizes its NovoGen MMX Bioprinter for 3D bioprinting.

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12.

Trials are being done to prevent the pig organ transplant to enter a clinical trial phase until the potential disease transfer from pigs to humans can be safely and satisfactorily managed .

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