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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hemoglobin (Hgb)

Health care; Organ transplantation

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.

ISO 9001:2008

Health care; Organ transplantation

The quality standards certification obtained by UNOS from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to ensure optimal quality of all information technology activities and processes ...

organ procurement

Health care; Organ transplantation

The removal or retrieval of organs from a donor for transplantation.

model for end-stage liver disease (MELD)

Health care; Organ transplantation

The scoring system used to measure illness severity in liver transplant candidates. This system is used in the allocation of livers to adults, established in February 2002. The MELD system uses three ...

standard Error

Health care; Organ transplantation

The standard error measures the level of precision associated with an estimate for a population, usually the mean. Categories that include a large number of transplants generally have small standard ...

Patient Affairs Committee

Health care; Organ transplantation

The standing OPTN committee charged with advising the Board of Directors and other committees about patient and donor family perspectives on proposed policies and issues and acting as an advocate for ...

Histocompatibility Committee

Health care; Organ transplantation

The standing OPTN committee charged with considering issues relating to donor and recipient histocompatibility, organ alocation, tissue typing consistency and histocompatibility laboratory ...