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  2. Organ transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location.

  3. Transplantable organs and tissues - Wikipedia

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    Ovary transplantation, giving rise to successful pregnancies, will result in children who will have the genetic inheritance of the organ donor and not the recipient. It has so far only been carried out on identical twins , since the use of an ovarian transplant from a genetically identical donor prevents rejection of the donated organ.

  4. Organ donation - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Kidney transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ.

  6. Transplant rejection - Wikipedia

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    Bone marrow transplant can replace the transplant recipient's immune system with the donor's, and the recipient accepts the new organ without rejection. The marrow's hematopoietic stem cells —the reservoir of stem cells replenishing exhausted blood cells including white blood cells forming the immune system—must be of the individual who ...

  7. How does the organ transplant system work? - AOL

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    There are more than 40,000 organ transplants performed each year nationwide, illustrating how the organ transplant system can transform lives — but that’s when it works. 1,400 people sit on ...

  8. Organ procurement - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Tissue transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Xenotransplantation is a cross-species tissue transplantation from animal to human. [10] [11] The development of blood vessel anastomosis opened the door for xenotransplantation during the 20th century, which led to numerous attempts in organ transplantations with tissues from nonhuman primates (NHPs).