What is the best organ to donate?

What is the best organ to donate?

What are the advantages of living donation over deceased donation?

• Some living donor transplants are done between family members who are genetically similar.
• A kidney from a living donor usually functions immediately, because the kidney is out of the body for a very short time.

What are the 6 organs that can be donated?

For patients and families awaiting transplant, organ and tissue donation can mean the difference between life and death. One donor can donate and save up to eight lives by donating organs after death. The organs that can be donated include the heart, intestines, kidneys, liver, lungs and the pancreas.

What are the most common organs to donate?

In the United States, the most commonly transplanted organs are the kidney, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas and intestines. On any given day there are around 75,000 people on the active waiting list for organs, but only around 8,000 deceased organ donors each year, with each providing on average 3.5 organs.

What are the 3 types of organ donation?

There are two types of organ donations – Living Organ Donations & Deceased Organ Donations….Which Tissues Can Be Donated?

• Cornea: Cornea donation or eye donation is the most common tissue donation.
• Bones: Bones from deceased donors are used to replace bones of recipients whose bones are cancerous.

Which is the easiest organ to transplant?

The liver is the only visceral organ to possess remarkable regenerative potential. In other words, the liver grows back. This regenerative potential is the reason why partial liver transplants are feasible. Once a portion or lobe of the liver is transplanted, it will regenerate.

Why is organ donation bad?

Cons. Organ donation is major surgery. All surgery comes with risks such as bleeding, infection, blood clots, allergic reactions, or damage to nearby organs and tissues. Although you will have anesthesia during the surgery as a living donor, you can have pain while you recover.

What are the 9 organs that can be donated?

Organs that can be donated

• Heart. The heart pumps blood around the body, and the blood carries oxygen to all other organs.
• Lung. The lungs provide oxygen to the blood and remove carbon dioxide.
• Kidney. The main function of the kidneys is to filter waste products from the blood.
• Liver.
• Pancreas.
• Eye tissue.
• Bone.
• Skin.

Who is the first organ donor in India?

The donor was Karl Brauer, an 11-year old boy who had iron metal bodies lodged in his eyes. The recipient was Alois Glogar, a 45-year-old day labourer whose corneas were damaged. His one eye had a clear vision after the transplant but other one had complications. India’s first cornea transplant happened in 1948.

Can a male receives a female kidney?

Only in some exceptional conditions, male donor to female recipient kidney transplant may be successful and female donors to male recipients are not suggested, especially in aged patients with the history of dialysis.

Why should you not donate your organs?

The most common reasons cited for not wanting to donate organs were mistrust (of doctors, hospitals, and the organ allocation system), a belief in a black market for organs in the United States, and deservingness issues (that one’s organs would go to someone who brought on his or her own illness, or who could be a “bad person”).

It is becoming more common to donate organs and partial organs while living. Kidneys are the most common organs donated by living donors. Other organs that can be donated by a living donor include a lobe of a lung, partial liver, pancreas or intestine.

Can I donate all of my organs before death?

Before death, you can donate organs and bone marrow. After death, you can donate organs, bone marrow, tissue, and entire body for medical research and education. To view a list of what specifically you can donate, see our After Death Guide.

What happens to me if I Donate my organs?

By donating your organs you have the opportunity to save people’s lives if you are a donor match. If you choose to donate your organs, after you die your body goes to a hospital. Once in the hospital, doctors will test your body to see if you had any diseases.