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Organ Transplant
Organ transplant is a surgical process of moving 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).
Organs that can be transplanted are the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, penis, eyes and intestine. Tissues include bones, bone marrow, tendons, cornea, heart valves, veins, blood, plasma, platelets, arms, and skin.
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Types of transplants
- Autograft - Transplant of tissue to the same person. 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 an autograft 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).
- Allograft - An allograft is a transplant of an organ or tissue between two genetically non-identical members of the same species. Most human tissue and organ transplants are allografts
- Isograft - A subset of allografts in which organs or tissues are transplanted from a donor to a genetically identical recipient (such as an identical twin). Isografts are differentiated from other types of transplants because while they are anatomically identical to allografts, they don't trigger an immune response.
- Split transplants - Sometimes a deceased-donor organ, usually a liver, may be pided between two recipients, especially an adult and a child.
- Domino transplants - This operation is usually performed on patients with cystic fibrosis because both lungs need to be replaced and it is a technically easier operation to replace the heart and lungs en bloc.
Major organs and tissues that can be transplanted:
At Meditrips India, our goal is to provide unsurpassed care for anyone whose life is touched by a solid organ transplant. Whether you are a patient awaiting transplantation, a living donor, or a transplant recipient. At our associate hospitals the expertise, physicians and supporting resources are available in a single location to dramatically improve patient care. Following are the transplant operations done at Meditrips India’s associate hospitals:
- Thoracic organs
- Heart (Deceased-donor only)
- Lung (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor)
- Heart Lung transplant (Deceased-donor and Domino transplant)
- Abdominal Organs
- Kidney (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor)
- Liver (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor)
- ancreas (Deceased-donor only)
- Intestine (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor)
- Tissues, cells, fluids
- Hand (Deceased-donor only)
- Cornea (Deceased-donor only)
- Skin including Face replant (autograft) and Face transplant (extremely rare)
- Islets of Langerhans (Pancreas Islet Cells) (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor)
- Bone marrow/Adult stem cell (Living-Donor and Autograft)
- Blood transfusion/Blood Parts Transfusion (Living-Donor and Autograft)
- Blood vessels (Autograft and Deceased-Donor)
- Heart valve (Deceased-Donor, Living-Donor and Xenograft[Porcine/bovine])
- Bone (Deceased-Donor and Living-Donor)
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