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Organ transplantation
The medical practice of replacing a patient's failing organ with a healthy one from a donor. Organs transplanted most often are the kidney, heart, lung, liver, and pancreas.
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immunosuppressive
Health care; Organ transplantation
Relating to the weakening or reducing of your immune system's responses to foreign material; immunosuppressive drugs reduce your immune system's ability to reject a transplanted organ.
allocation analysis
Health care; Organ transplantation
Review of the allocation of an organ to determine whether the allocation policies were followed. The analysis is performed by the OPTN contractor through the peer review process of the OPTN ...
allocation policies
Health care; Organ transplantation
Rules established by the OPTN to guide and regulate organ allocation and distribution in the United States.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
Health care; Organ transplantation
See Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
encephalopathy
Health care; Organ transplantation
Serious brain function abnormalities experienced by some patients with advanced liver disease (and other diseases). Symptoms most commonly include confusion, disorientation, insomnia, and may ...
Donate Life, Done Vida
Health care; Organ transplantation
Since 2000, Donate Life and its Spanish-translation Done Vida have been the primary slogans and service mark logos of Donate Life America, promoting donation as a forthright, life-affirming action. ...
chronic rejection
Health care; Organ transplantation
Slow, continuous immunological attack of the host immune system on the transplanted organ usually resulting in progressive loss of organ function.
