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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innovator

Health care; Organ transplantation

In the improvement process, the person(s) who goes outside the organization to find new ideas. This person may not be well connected to others in the social system. (Rogers E. Diffusion of ...

lung allocation score (LAS)

Health care; Organ transplantation

In the OPTN lung allocation system, every lung transplant candidate age 12 and older receives a lung allocation score, which, combined with blood type, and the geographic distance between the ...

HLA mismatch (MM)

Health care; Organ transplantation

In transplantation, a mismatch indicates the donor has at least one HLA-A, HLA-B, or HLA-DR antigen that is not present in the recipient.

Infection that usualy occurs in patients during treatment with steroids or immunosuppressants. Examples of fungi include candidas, aspergillus and histoplasmosis, which tend to affect the whole body ...

pyelonephritis

Health care; Organ transplantation

Inflammation and/or infection of the kidney and the renal pelvis (part of the system that conveys urine from the kidney to the bladder).

pancreas

Health care; Organ transplantation

Irregularly shaped gland that lies behind the stomach and secretes pancreatic enzymes into the small intestines to aid in the digestion of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Islet cells within the ...

brain death

Health care; Organ transplantation

Irreversible cessation of cerebral and brain stem function; characterized by absence of electrical activity in the brain, blood flow to the brain, and brain function as determined by clinical ...