Anti-transplant drugs or immunosuppressive drugs are one of the most important reasons for the success of organ transplants today.At the beginning of organ transplantation in the 1950s, the success rate of transplantation was very low due to the prevalence of transplant rejection. The prevalence of transplant rejection was about 80%...
All types of organ transplants are associated with late complications that show up several years after transplantation.One of the causes of late complications of organ transplantation is the long-term use of anti-transplant drugs.Weakening of the immune system exposes transplant patients to a variety of infections, including fungal and viral infections....
Organ transplantation is a new science and a little over 60 years have passed since its entry into the field of medicine.Organ donation is one of the topics that has attracted the attention of transplant doctors and medical ethicists worldwide. Organ donation should be based on human dignity, so citizenship...
Much has been said and written about Saadi and his book Golestan. I do not intend to repeat them in this brief, and I will only refer to anecdotes in which there are aspects of medical issues. Interestingly, many issues are still debated and challenged in the modern medical sciences...
The characters of Shahnameh are each a special manifestation of worldview, philosophy or attitude towards the world and life.From this perspective, this great work may also be a summary of different worldviews and ideologies. Here I do not intend to examine each of the characters of Shahnameh from this perspective...
Organ transplantation using the organs of a dead person (corpse) has long been in the human mind.From time immemorial, man has attributed death to the cessation of heart and lung function. The first transplants of the corpse were performed in such a way that the organ was quickly removed from...
Transplant surgery is one of the major surgeries, so early complications after transplantation are relatively common.Fortunately, many of these side effects can be treated quickly. We refer here only to the early complications that are common to all transplants, regardless of the type of organ transplant.An important part of these...
In a liver transplant from a living person, a healthy person donates part of his liver to a sick person. The donated liver will grow in the recipient over a period of weeks to months. The rest of the liver also grows in the donor and returns to its previous...
The news of a pig kidney transplant to a human is an early success in realizing the dream of using animal organs for patients in need of a transplant. Surgeons in New York have successfully transplanted a kidney made from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead patient. The kidney worked...
Fifty years ago in August 1968, Harvard University introduced a new definition of death based on branches of neural function. Until then, death was the cessation of blood flow (or heart function) and respiration. The report, led by anesthesiologist Henry Beecher, emphasizes that the report aims to redefine death based...
