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.

Industry: Health care

Add a new term

Contributors in Organ transplantation

Become a Contributors

Organ transplantation

tissue typing

Health care; Organ transplantation

A blood test that helps evaluate how closely the tissues of the donor match those of the recipient.

A blood test to determine compatibility between donor and recipient. A positive crossmatch indicates incompatibility. If the crossmatch is "negative," then the transplant may proceed. Crossmatching ...

committee-sponsored alternative system

Health care; Organ transplantation

A Board-approved Alternative Allocation/Distribution System developed by one or more OPTN committees that seeks to address concerns particular to multiple local areas but not nationally, or for which ...

alternative point assignment protocols

Health care; Organ transplantation

A Board-approved modification to the point system criteria defined in Policies 3.5 through 3.11, applicable to members participating in an approved AAD System. Members participating in an approved ...

variance

Health care; Organ transplantation

A Board-approved, time-limited experimental OPTN policy designed to test a hypothesis that the change will improve allocation by more effectively addressing fairness, utility, efficiency, need and/or ...

bilirubin

Health care; Organ transplantation

A breakdown product of hemoglobin from blood cells, the results of which are used in the MELD and PELD calculations as a measure of the severity of liver disease.

cockcroft-gault formula

Health care; Organ transplantation

A calculation used as a measure of kidney function by estimating creatinine clearance. It is calculated from a patient's serum creatinine, age, weight, and gender. For males: (140-age)*weight/(72*crea ...