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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Organ transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation Committee

Health care; Organ transplantation

The standing OPTN committee charged with considering medical, scientific and ethical issues relating to organ procurement, allocation and sharing for pediatric patients. These issues include: pre- ...

Communications Committee

Health care; Organ transplantation

The standing OPTN committee charged with defining communications objectives and the needs of OPTN membership, the public, the transplant community at large and the media with respect to OPTN ...

Minority Affairs Committee (MAC)

Health care; Organ transplantation

The standing OPTN committee charged with identifying issues which impact organ procurement, allocation and transplantation of minorities. As necessary, the committee conducts research related to ...

Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC)

Health care; Organ transplantation

The standing OPTN committee charged with insuring that OPTN members meet and remain in compliance with OPTN Criteria for Institutional Membership. The MPSC develops, modifies and makes ...

Transplant Administrators Committee

Health care; Organ transplantation

The standing OPTN committee charged with representing the transplant administration community on the Board and striving to optimize transplant services through administrative practices for the ...

Executive Committee

Health care; Organ transplantation

The standing OPTN Committee composed of no more than 12 Directors: President, Immediate Past President, Vice President, Vice President of Patient and Donor Affairs, Secretary, Treasurer, and if not ...

donation rate

Health care; Organ transplantation

In statistics, the number of actual donors where at least one organ is recovered for the purpose of transplant. One method of computing donation rate is as a percentage of a specified population ...