Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of … See more

Autografts are the transplant of tissue to the same person. Sometimes this is done with surplus tissue, tissue that can regenerate, or tissues more desperately needed elsewhere (examples include skin grafts, vein extract… See more

• Heart (deceased-donor only; porcine xenograft attempted)
• Lung (deceased-donor and living-related lung transplantation)
• Thymus… See more

• Kidney transplantation is becoming increasingly common and is the preferred treatment for end-stage renal failure.
• Liver transplantation is the only curative therapy for end-stage liver disease, and the liver is the second … See more

The main complications are procedural complications, infection, acute rejection, cardiac allograft vasculopathy and malignancy.
Non-vascular and vascular complications can occur i… See more

Organ donors may be living or may have died of brain death or circulatory death. Most deceased donors are those who have been pronounced brain dead. Brain dead means the cessation of brain function, typically aft… See more

In most countries there is a shortage of suitable organs for transplantation. Countries often have formal systems in place to manage the process of determining who is an organ donor and in what order … See more