Organ transplant

Question 1

What is organ transplant

Answer 1

A medical procedure to replace a native organ from a body and put it in the recipient’s body, to replace the damaged or missing organ.

Question 2

What age range needs organ transplant most

Answer 2

Age 50-64

Question 3

What limits organ transplant (4)

Answer 3

• Complexity (trained personel or equipment availability)
• Organ availability.
• Preservation of organs.
• Ethical issues.

Question 4

How to store organ?

Answer 4

- Organ on ice
37 C: 100% metabolism
0-4 C: 5% metabolism
- Organ care system(Warm-blood supply)
(Transmedics company)

Question 5

Where and when is the first heart transplant

Answer 5

In south africa in 1967

Question 6

4 types of donor

Answer 6

• Autograft (yourself)
• Isograft (identical twins)
• Allograft (different individuals, same species)
• Xenograft (different species)

Question 7

2 other types of donor

Answer 7

• Living donor

- Deceased donor (60% majority)

Question 8

Why some organ/ tissue can be obtained from living donor

Answer 8

• Some tissue can be renewable (bone marrow)

- (Part) of the organ is donor, and the other can still do the workload alone : lung lobes, kidney, liver, small bowels.

Question 9

Deceased donors ONLY

Answer 9

• Heart
• Pancreas, stomach
• Hand, cornea.

Question 10

The most needed transplant in order

Answer 10

1. Kidney
2. Liver
3. Heart
4. Lung
5. Pancreas

Question 11

The most expensive transplant in US

Answer 11

• Heart (1.4 mil)

Question 12

The cheapest transplant in US

Answer 12

• Cornea

Question 13

What country can sell and buy kidney legally

Answer 13

• Iran

Question 14

Ethical issues of organ transplant

Answer 14

• The donors are too old or young
• Certify death: Brain or heart. Most countries accept brain death.
• Organ sale
• Use of organs from executed prisoner
• Xenotransplantation