What is organ donation?

Life is dying, you can donate organs with good functions such as liver, kidney, heart, lung, pancreas and small intestine. In addition, corneas, skin, bones, blood vessels, nerves and other tissues can be donated, as can remains.

According to the data, organ donation means that when a person is diagnosed with brain death and can only rely on ventilators and drugs to maintain vital signs, his organs are donated to dying patients with the consent of his family members, so that his life can be extended or donated to medical colleges for medical teaching.

Healthy adults can also donate one of their kidneys or part of their liver to relatives or spouses.

The Rise of Organ transplantation medicine;

Organ transplantation has always been a human dream before the 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the medical community was still at a loss to treat those who suffered from severe organ failure. Due to various objective conditions, organ transplantation only stayed in the animal experiment stage at that time.

In 1950s, doctors all over the world began to conduct human trials, but the effect of organ transplantation was not satisfactory because the rejection after transplantation could not be well controlled.

This situation continued until Novartis invented the immunosuppressive drug-cyclosporine. The invention of cyclosporine has greatly improved the survival rate after organ transplantation, and organ transplantation has developed rapidly, which is one of the great achievements of cutting-edge medicine in this century.

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