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 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...
Diabetes (or diabetes) is one of the most common chronic diseases in human societies today. This disease is also called "silent killer". People with the disease are at risk for cardiovascular problems, strokes, kidney failure, and eye diseases (and even blindness) in the long run.Fortunately, by controlling this disease, these...
Numerous field studies indicate an increase in the incidence of chronic non-communicable diseases in our country. About half of people over the age of 50 in our country suffer from high blood pressure. About a quarter of people have some degree of kidney failure. It is estimated that in the...
The Corona epidemic, which began in Wuhan, China in 2019, quickly spread around the world and became a global problem. In the last hundred years, most infectious diseases have been controlled so that chronic diseases have replaced them in causing more deaths. The corona epidemic showed the serious problem of...
