Organ division
Significant progress in medical science in recent decades has opened up unique opportunities for mankind in organ transplantation.In just over 50 years, transplantation has gone from being a "surgical miracle" to performing life-saving operations on hundreds of thousands of patients.
Organ transplantation involves the implementation of two consecutive stages. The first stage - the donor, consists of removing a healthy organ (organs) from the donor, and in the second stage, this organ is implanted into the body of the recipient.
Organ donation is the process of donating human organs for transplantation after death or voluntarily for medical reasons.
The first step
Before each organ is harvested from a cadaver donor, recipients on the waiting list are automatically screened for matching blood type, height, weight and other medical factors. A computer application then determines the order in which other candidates will be offered according to national policies.
Properly Sized Body
Appropriate organ size is critical to successful transplantation, meaning that children often respond better to child-sized organs. Although pediatric candidates have their own evaluation system, children are first for other organs of children.
Factors in organ distribution
Blood type and other medical factors affect the allocation of each donated organ, but other factors are unique to each organ type.
Kidney
- Waiting time
- Donor/recipient immune system compatibility
- Pediatric condition
- A person who donates his organ in time
- Medical emergency
- Distance from donor hospital
Liver
- Blood compatibility
- Liver volume
- Medical emergency
- Severity level (highest benefit)
- Possibility of individual transplantation
Heart
- Medical necessity
- Distance from donor hospital
- Medical emergency
Lungs
- Organ survival benefit
- Medical emergency
- Waiting time
- Distance from donor hospital
Protective organs
Donor organs require special preservation methods to preserve their viability during distribution and transplantation.
Total maximum organ protection periods
- Heart, lungs: 4-6 hours
- Liver: 8-12 hours
- Pancreas: 12-18 hours
- Kidney: 24-36 hours
Associations for Organ Transplantation in the World
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) is a unique public-private network that connects all professionals involved in the US donation and transplantation system. The European Organization for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) is an organization that unites the organ transplantation community in Europe. Asia Transplantation (ATCO) is an organization that aims to spread organ donation and transplantation in Asian countries, promote best practices, set ethical standards and promote research.