Surgery entered a new era with the first surgery under general anesthesia on October 16, 1846 at Harvard University in Boston, USA. Prior to that, surgeries were limited and many surgeons were not physicians. This is called the first wave of surgery.After October 16, 1846, surgery entered its second wave....
Organ transplantation and its role in our society is a complex and multifaceted issue that requires special attention. In this discussion, special attention should be paid to the provision of members, transplant team, anti-transplant rejection drugs, complications, transplant results, patients' quality of life and costs.First of all, it should be...
The success rate of organ transplants in children today is so great that more than 80% of them will experience youth and puberty. Organ transplants in children are performed in special cases that are different from adults. Like adults, children have heart, lung, kidney, small intestine or bone marrow transplants....
One of the complications of organ transplantation is transplant rejection. Because the transplanted organ is a foreign tissue, the immune system tends to reject it. It should be noted that our immune system is designed to fight any external factors. The body's immune system does not understand the difference between...
Organ transplantation is a branch of medical science that is just over 60 years old. During this period, this science has been accompanied by very significant successes, so that it is known as one of the miracles of modern science. Many patients who used to struggle with death due to...
Kidney transplantation is one of the most common transplants performed in the world and in Iran. The first successful transplant in the world was a kidney transplant, which was performed in 1954 at Harvard University in Boston, USA. In this surgery, the brother donated his kidney to his twin brother....
The pancreas is an organ inside the abdomen that helps digest food and regulate blood sugar.Pancreas transplantation was first performed in 1967 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The main use of this transplant is in diabetic patients who also have kidney failure. In these patients, either the pancreas and the kidney can...
Liver transplantation is now the best treatment for many chronic liver diseases that have reached the end stage and no other treatment is possible for them.Many of these patients suffer from complications such as jaundice, fluid accumulation in the abdomen, gastrointestinal bleeding, recurrent infections, or liver cancer.Liver transplants were first...
Organ transplantation is a new field in the world and in Iran. In our country, in the last few decades, good progress has been made in this field, including organ donation from a living person and a corpse, and the establishment of numerous transplant centers, especially kidney transplants, but it...
There is a misconception among people about organ transplantation that it is the ultimate treatment for the failure of vital organs such as the kidneys, liver, heart and lungs.Here are 10 of these misconceptions:1- Having an organ donation card causes doctors not to make enough efforts to save the life...
