Organ transplantation

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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hepatic

Health care; Organ transplantation

Having to do with, or referring to, the liver.

pulmonary

Health care; Organ transplantation

Having to do with, or referring to, the lungs.

High blood pressure. Occurs when the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the blood vessels is higher than normal because the blood vessels have either become less elastic or have gotten ...

routine referral

Health care; Organ transplantation

Hospitals are required on or before each death to call the OPO in order to determine suitability for organ, eye and tissue donation. The OPO, in consultation with the patient's attending physician or ...

required request

Health care; Organ transplantation

Hospitals must tell the families of suitable donors that their loved one's organs and tissues can be used for transplant. This law is expected to increase the number of donated organs and tissues for ...

warm ischemic time (WIT)

Health care; Organ transplantation

If the donor is a DCD donor, the warm ischemic time is the time from: * The time of Agonal Phase onset to the time when core cooling is initiated. OR * The calculated time using the serial data to be ...

Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)

Health care; Organ transplantation

In 1987, Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act that mandated the establishment of the OPTN and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. The purpose of the OPTN is to improve the ...