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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.
Organ donation and transplantation allows a deceased or living donor to give life to another. Surgeons remove a healthy organ from a donor who doesn’t need it and transfer it to someone else who does. Organs that they can transplant include the liver, kidney, heart, lungs and more.
Transplantation of human cells, tissues or organs saves many lives and restores essential functions where no alternatives of comparable effectiveness exist. In 50 years, transplantation has become a successful worldwide practice.
A living-donor transplant is a surgical procedure to remove an organ or portion of an organ from a living person and place it in another person whose organ is no longer functioning properly.
A surgeon moves a donated organ to someone whose organ failed. This is an organ transplant. Certain diseases can lead to organ failure. So can injury or birth defects.
When a person needs an organ transplant, it is because one of their organs is working very poorly or failing. Undergoing an organ transplant can lengthen a person’s life and allow those...
What organs can be transplanted? Donated organs — from deceased donors or living donors. Anyone can become an organ donor, no matter your age. Your medical condition at the time of death will determine what organs and tissue can be donated.
Mayo Clinic Transplant Center — Learn about transplant services at Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic's preeminent adult and pediatric transplant programs offer heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, hand, face, blood and bone marrow transplant.
Organ transplantation -- the surgical removal of a healthy organ from one person and its transplantation into another person whose organ has failed or was injured -- is often lifesaving and...
Every 10 minutes, another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. Twenty-one people die each day from lack of a transplant. More than 1 million tissue transplants are done each year. Ninety percent of Americans support donation, but only 30 percent know how to become a donor.