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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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immune system
Health care; Organ transplantation
The organs, tissues, cells and cell products in your body that work to find and neutralize foreign substances including bacteria, viruses and transplanted organs.
transplant program
Health care; Organ transplantation
The organ-specific facility within a transplant center. A transplant center may have programs for the transplantation of hearts, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreata, pancreas islets, and/or intestines.
perfusion
Health care; Organ transplantation
The passage of a fluid (blood or other) through the vessels of organs or tissues. Deceased organs are perfused with synthetic cold preservation fluid to keep them viable for transplant.
panel reactive antibody (PRA)
Health care; Organ transplantation
The percent PRA value is a measure of a patient's level of sensitization to HLA antigens. It is the percentage of cells from a panel of blood donors against which a potential recipient's serum ...
death rate
Health care; Organ transplantation
The percentage of deaths observed in a group of patients, also referred to as the rate of mortality. In statistics, the death rate is calculated as the number of patient deaths observed per 1,000 ...
conversion, conversion rate
Health care; Organ transplantation
The percentage of times a death meeting eligible criteria (eligible death) becomes an actual donor.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Health care; Organ transplantation
The primary healthcare agency of the federal government that deals with health access issues. Its role is to make essential primary care service available to poor, uninsured and geographically ...
