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Transplant is a Canadian medical drama television series created by Joseph Kay, which premiered on February 26, 2020, on CTV.The series centres on Bashir "Bash" Hamed, a doctor from Syria who comes to Canada as a refugee during the Syrian Civil War, [a] and is rebuilding his career as a medical resident in the emergency department at the fictional York Memorial Hospital in Toronto.
Pages in category "Television episodes about organ transplantation" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Most human tissue and organ transplants are allografts. Due to the genetic difference between the organ and the recipient, the recipient's immune system will identify the organ as foreign and attempt to destroy it, causing transplant rejection. The risk of transplant rejection can be estimated by measuring the panel-reactive antibody level.
Louis Joshua Washkansky (12 April 1912 [1] – 21 December 1967) was a South African man who was the recipient of the world's first human-to-human heart transplant, and the first patient to regain consciousness following the operation. [2]
Transplantation of all abdominal organs: US: 1998: First successful human hand transplant (later removed) France: 2002: First single segment liver transplant on a baby (24 days) Princess Alexandra hospital, QLD Australia: 2003: Australia's first triple transplant (heart, lung, liver) Princess Alexandra hospital, QLD Australia: 2005
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).
Organ procurement; Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China; Organ procurement organization; Organ replacement in animals; Organ theft; List of organ transplant donors and recipients; Organ transplantation in China; List of orthotopic procedures
One of the earliest mentions about the possibility of a kidney transplant was by American medical researcher Simon Flexner, who declared in a reading of his paper on "Tendencies in Pathology" in the University of Chicago in 1907 that it would be possible in the then-future for diseased human organs substitution for healthy ones by surgery, including arteries, stomach, kidneys and heart.