Heart transplantation

Until recently, the only viable option for severe heart failure patients has been heart transplantation. Heart disease continues to claim an increasing proportion of the world’s population, so in turn the demand for donor hearts is rising. However, according to the alarming figures from the Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation in 2013, the number of donor hearts readily available for transplant are flat in countries and declining in others. To address this issue, medical teams from across the globe have successfully developed the artificial heart; currently, there is 13 known models on the market. This breakthrough in medical technology has been implanted into patients dying of end-stage biventricular heart…

First of all, in order to receive a new heart, patients have to register on a waiting list. The waiting list for hearts may take up to 1.3 years on average, because out of all the people who die, less than 1% of them are potential donors. In other words, less than 1% of the people who die are brain dead. A person who is brain dead means he/she has an irreversible damage in the brain, causing the brain to lose its functions. There are two definitions of death in Australia. One of them refers to…

Williams’ case goes to show that euthanasia may not be the best decision. Someone with a terminal illness may be suffering from depression, causing them to fail to see why they may still need to live. Williams is not the only one who survived a supposedly life ending illness. The Dailymail reported on a girl named Hannah Jones. All her life, Jones faced many medical challenges including a heart surgery and a lengthy battle with cancer. At age 13, Jones denied a heart transplant surgery and…

As an example African Americans, Asians and Hispanics are 3 times more likely than white Americans to suffer from kidney disease. There are at least 34% of more than 100,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney that are African American. Organs are not matched to race. People of different races often match each other. If there were more donors from their race/ethnic background than the chances of getting an organ from their race/ethnic background is greater, because compatible blood types are…

There is a great deal of speculation of whether or not organ selling should be legal. Stephen Wilkinson states that organ sale is the selling of organs to give to another person, in the hopes of getting a paycheck. There are two ways to do this: paying people money for their body after they pass or to pay the patient’s family for their deceased loved ones’ organs (Wilkinson 2011). The United States has already developed a way to aid those who need organs receive a healthy one through a process…

UNOS stands United Network for Organ Sharing is a private organization that's not for any profit what so ever manages the organ transplant system in service for the federal government. UNOS help many people get these organs they need to save their lives. They help match people with organs at first with their factors they do match up against what they don't. Those factors being blood type, height, weight and other medical relevance things connected to organ transplantation. Geography figures…

The gift of life, these simple words may have different meanings to all of us in our class, but there is a special type of gift that each and every one of us can give. This gift is being an organ donor, an opportunity to give someone another chance at life once yours is completed. In this speech; I hope to persuade you, my COM 101 class, to become an organ donor. According to Donate Life America as of May of 2015, there are nearly 124,000 people on the waiting lists in the United States…

number of people willing to donate for free.” (qtd in Kline, par. 9) This shows that the access to free organs is still available to those in need, with shorter waitlists than before because some could choose to pay. Some have voiced concerns that the price of kidneys will be too expensive, leaving them in the same predicament as before. Admittedly, yes you would have to pay for the transplant in lieu of it being donated. However when compared with the price of continual dialysis, $60,000…

kidneys. Currently, kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for this condition. Compared to the alternative of long-term dialysis, transplantation offers a better quality of life, is more than twice as effective at improving the long-term prognosis of the patient, and is cheaper. However, there is a significant shortage of available kidneys in the United States. Of the approximately 110,000 people in the United States currently on the kidney transplant waiting list, only 15% ever…

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a disease caused by a genetic malfunction of chromosome seven. It is a multi-system disorder that causes thick, sticky secretions to be produced due to the defective transport of sodium and chloride within the cells. As the lung disease progresses to get worse, one option for treatment is a double lung transplantation. Lung transplantation sounds great and can be very beneficial, but it has its risks and there are ethical issues involved. The ethical issues that are…