The Pros And Cons Of Organ Transplantation

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Organ transplantation has been one of the most recognized advancement in medicine in the past century. It has provided a way of giving the gift of life to someone with a terminal failure of vital organs. It requires the participation of fellow human beings and it has brought us closer as a human race. But in the past decade, there has been an increase in failure of vital organs and an inadequate of supply of organs which has created a wide gap between organ supply and demand. It has resulted in a very long waiting list to receive an organ as well as an increasing number of deaths while waiting. The demand for these organs has significantly surpassed the number of donors in the past years. This isn’t an isolated incident it’s happening all over …show more content…
Organ transplant is usually the last option. The primary problem surrounding organ transplantation is the availability of a vital organ. Not everyone who needs an organ transplant gets one. The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) maintains a complete and Up to-date website that gives the status of people awaiting organ transplants. According to their website over 123,944 people are currently awaiting transplants in the United States. About every 10 minutes someone is added to the waiting list. Each day, an average of 79 people receive organ transplants . However, an average of 18 people die each day waiting for transplants that can 't take place because of the shortage of donated organs. UNOS waiting list criteria for distributing organs: medical need, probability of success and time on the waiting list. On December 23 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was done in Boston. Kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organ and the most in need. It’s also one of the organs that can be transplant from a living person and not and cadaveric like most are. While patients wait for a kidney transplant, many of them endure painful and expensive dialysis treatment to clean toxins out of the blood . Some patients do dialysis treatment on a daily basis and it robs them of normal life. Some conditions that could make a kidney transplant necessary are high blood pressure, diabetes, and cystic kidney

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