Waiting for an Organ Transplant

Currently, more than 118,617 men, women and children are waiting for transplant surgery. Due to the high demand for organ transplant, supply is necessary. According to the 2008 OPTN Annual Report, the median waiting time for heart transplantation was 113 days, the lung was 141 days, the liver was 361 days, the kidney was 1219 days, the pancreas was 260 days, and every part of the intestine It was 159 days. In this illness and illness world, we are desperate for the needs of organs. Blood transfusions to provided organs after organ transplantation is a way that medical procedures can help patients improve their lives.

The shortage of transplanted organs around the world is getting worse and this is a fatal problem. According to the network of organ procurement and transplantation, more than 114,000 people are currently waiting for organ transplants in the United States, and one participates in the standby list for nationwide transplants every ten minutes. Unfortunately, not everyone desperately lives long enough to get the necessary organs. Indeed, 20 people have died each day while waiting. Even those who receive organs, there is always the danger of being rejected. Dr. Pablo Ross of the University of California Davis, says: "Even today, the immune system continues to attack for a long time, so the best matching organs will not last long unless they come from the same twin.

Since the first kidney transplantation in 1954 succeeded, the organ transplant center has been facing a serious shortage. About 6,500 Americans die each year to await transplantation of the organ and 4,000 people are thought to be too sick to wait for transplantation. Since 1999, the waiting list has almost doubled from 65,313 to more than 123,000. Liver and kidney diseases kill more people than breast or prostate cancers, and the disease control and prevention center expects the incidence of these chronic diseases along with more organ demand will increase .

In addition to citizens waiting for organ transplants in the United States and other developed countries, there are long waiting lists elsewhere in the world. More than 2 million people in China need an organ transplant, 50,000 people are waiting in Latin America (90% of them waiting for the kidneys), people with few records on the African continent There are thousands. Donor base of developing countries varies. In Latin America, the contribution rate is 400,000 to 100 people / year per year, just like developed countries. However, in Uruguay, Cuba and Chile, 90% of organ transplants are from corpse providers. The corporate donor accounts for 35% of Saudi Arabian donors. Continued efforts to increase the utilization of Asian corpse donors, the popularity of living single kidney donors in India has made Indian cadaver donors less than 1 pmp