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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
