2- Restoring the organ can restore life. Regenerative medicine is on the way already. 3- Gland donation will be simplified as today the medicine of transplants faces the problem of finding donors.…
The decision is yours, will you make the right one? Organ transplants have a very important history. Unknown to many, some organ transplants have been recorded before 5 B.C. According to legend; a Roman Catholic was said to have chopped off a…
To begin with, if something as simple as mixing up heart and lung transplants can harbor terrible effects then the possibilities of failure during or after the surgery could be endless. “And he [Algernon] hasn't been eating. Everyone is upset about what this may mean.” (page 302, Flower for Algernon) In the novel and short story Flowers for Algernon, a mouse named Algernon was the first success for an operation to increase intelligence.…
The article “New Transplant Technology Keeps Organs ‘Alive’ Outside Body” written by Jacque Wilson appears on CNN on April 25, 2013. It asserts that the step forward in transporting organs in much bigger geographic region will be made soon because of TransMedic Organ Care system. As we know, transplant teams always rush because they have “less than eight hours to transport the organ to the operating room, prepare it for surgery and implant it into the recipient's body,” doctor Beswick said. In 2006, surgeons in Europe transplanted the first heart using the TransMedics Organ Care System, a portable device that kept the heart "alive" - beating, with blood and oxygen pumping through it – even during transportation.…
Organ transplantation also has issues with the organ matching the patient, rejection, and exposure to damage and infection. Scientists and researchers are trying to find ways to improve the process, but the process itself is not as efficient as it needs to be. This is where organ/tissue engineering and xenotransplantation…
First heart transplant was performed in 1967 by Dr. Christiaan Barnard. After that roughly 5,000 heart transplants were performed worldwide each year about 2,000 are performed in the United States (7). Some organs can donate when patient is not braindead, such as kidneys and livers, while on the other hand organs like heart, eyes, pancreases and skin cannot donate when patient is alive. A heart transplant is transplant procedure by surgery where the malfunctioning heart or heart related disease are replaced by a function heart (4). Indeed, these surgeries are often hazardous or successful, also in some case immune system may reject the heart because it is a foreign object.…
A study conducted at the University of Chicago by Alberto Abadie and Sebastien Gay, over organ transplantation systems, came to the conclusion that about eighteen people die a day due to the failure of receiving organs. That is eighteen lives that could be saved by healthy organs of a deceased person! Farrell, Price, and Quigley have argued that the “number of heart-beating donors have reduced as a result of fewer young people dying…
Imagine waking up one morning with severe pain in your chest, resulting in an ER visit because the pain is unbearable. The results from your doctor explains that you have a heart condition that requires you to get a heart transplant in the next three months, or heart failure will occur. Two and half months have passed, you are laying there, IV in hand, and the hum of machines around you, as you watch your health slowly slip away in front of your eyes, as that dreaded three month mark approaches. This same situation happens on a daily basis to many ill people around the world. The sick are given a number of days or months they have left and placed on the waiting list.…
In the United States, there has been an increase in the number of organ transplants needed over the years, even though there are not enough donated organs to fill that need. This issue has sparked many ideas in the creation of a remedy to the current organ donation shortage. One of the proposed solutions would be to legalize the sale of human organs, which has many issues woven within it. Through history of organ donations, many people have been saved.…
The transplant is their only remaining medical option. The fact is that there are not enough donors, and there is no foreseeable increase in registration. Approximately 22 people in the U.S. die everyday because they had to wait for a specific organ(s). The issue is that there are too few organs, we need to get more. California must adopt a solution to this problem since over 17% of the Americans waiting on organ donations live in this state.…
There will also be no risk of organ rejection, because the organ is still composed of the person’s own DNA. Moreover, embryonic stem cells can repair damaged or dysfunctional tissues, serving as regenerative medicine (National Institutes of Health, “Stem Cell Information”). These functions are especially critical in saving lives, as organs and tissues are integral parts of the body; were they to function improperly or suffer damage, one could not possibly survive, let alone live…
Transplantation is the surgical removal of an organ from a donor and transferring it into the recipient whose organ has failed. However, solid organ transplant rejection by the recipient's immune system may occur. Transfusion before transplantation was found to reduce solid organ transplant rejection by inducing regulatory T-cells and immunomodulation with down-regulation of the immune system. Similarly, ABO blood group matching, tissue typing, cross matching and using immune suppressants are among the methods used to avoid rejection. Interestingly, clinical observation in humans noted significant correlation between the rate of bone marrow rejection and the number of antecedent transfusion.…
This week’s articles, Bovine Abominations: Genetic Culture and Politics in the Netherlands by Karen-Sue Taussig and Bodies, Commodities, & Biotechnologies by Leslie Sharp illustrate the “tie between genetics and identity” (Taussig 2004: 309). It is in human nature to believe that we all have a personality, thoughts, and emotions that make us human. Anything that is not of human origin is considered to be a tool for dehumanization. That is why this idea of xenotransplants and biotechnologies does not sit right with my stomach. I feel as though the more developed the field becomes, the more it will become a path of destruction.…
Organ transplantation is one of the great advantages in modern medicine. Unfortunately, the amount of organ donors is much greater than the number of people who…
Today alone 18 people will die waiting for an organ transplant. Just one person can save up to eight lives by being donors. Medicine and medical procedures can no longer save the terminally ill. Assuming that the patient chooses to donate their body to science, they can help others live even in their death. The choice should always be the patients, whether they are choosing to donate their organs or the manner of their death.…