Medical science is one of the sciences that has always had a high influence and prestige throughout history. But what is the reason for this? The reason may be in the sanctity of man in all beliefs and religions. For example, in the Qur'an, life is sacred. God swears by...
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....
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 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...
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...
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...