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The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.
If the organ donor is human, most countries require that the donor be legally dead for consideration of organ transplantation (e.g. cardiac death or brain death). For some organs, a living donor can be the source of the organ. For example, living donors can donate one kidney or part of their liver to a well-matched recipient. [2]
Organs regularly transplanted include lungs, heart, cornea, pancreas, and kidneys. Modes of donation are an altruistic living donation of a non-vital organ (generally a kidney) and post-mortal organ donation (PMOD). PMOD can be subdivided into donation after brain death (DBD) and donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). [5]
Currently, the organ recipient’s and the organ donor’s insurance (assuming they have insurance) argue about who should cover what, often leaving the donor with huge unpaid bills, particularly ...
Now I have to unregister as a donor. I’m a cancer patient and have never been a donor.” Donate Life Texas is the official organ, eye and tissue donor registry for the state of Texas. Chad ...
Once the OPO receives authorization for donation from the decedent's family or through first-person authorization (such as a state or national Donor Registry), it works with UNOS to identify the best candidates for the available organs, and coordinates with the surgical team for each organ recipient.
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54-1327878 [2]: Legal status: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [2] Headquarters: Richmond, Virginia, U.S. [3]: Coordinates: Services: Manages the U.S. organ transplant system under contract with the federal government by bringing together transplant and organ procurement professionals and volunteers in order to make life-saving organ transplants possible.