Organ Transplant

Organ transplant: Replacing diseased organs with healthy ones
Find out what you need to do to receive an organ transplant and how to take care of your new organ.
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The need for an organ transplant can be difficult to understand, accept and cope with for anyone. The emotional and psychological stress impacts all family members.
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As with all major organ transplants, the problems are finding a donor, preventing rejection, and the cost of the surgery and medications.
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As a result of recent refinements in organ transplantation (see transplantation, medical) techniques, the need has arisen to more precisely define medical death. The current definition is that of a 1981 U.S.
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Often used to prevent rejection after organ transplant, azathioprine (Imuran) and cyclosporine (Neoral) are immune suppressants that are sometimes used to treat arthritis when other drugs have failed.
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Although there is no cure for cytomegalovirus, organ transplant recipients, people with AIDS and others with immune disorders may need treatment to suppress the infection. Treatment may be directed at the underlying immune disorder.
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Illnesses such as AIDS impair the immune system, as can treatment for cancer, or taking anti-rejection drugs used for organ transplant recipients. These individuals have a substantially greater risk from a histoplasmosis infection.
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SangCya (cyclosporine oral solution, USP [modified]) - Product recalled* An immunosuppressive agent for prevention of rejection in solid organ transplant recipients, treatment of advanced rheumatoid arthritis, and treatment of plaque psoriasis.
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HIV patient, organ transplant recipient, chemotherapy patient). Widespread or recurrent shingles may indicate an underlying problem with the immune system. Shingles most often affects adults of both genders aged 55 and older.
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Our advanced ability to perform tissue and organ transplants has also increased the number of people vulnerable to fungal infections.
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Taking immunosuppressant drugs after an organ transplant.
Being exposed to certain pesticides.
A diet high in meats and fat.
Past treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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CYCLOSPORINE A - Drug marketed with trade names Sandimmune and Neoral. Given to organ transplant recipients to prevent the body from rejecting the graft. Inhibits immune system from rejecting foreign tissue.
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Up to one in ten older patients won't be candidates for the vaccine because of weakened immune systems due to cancer therapy, organ transplants, HIV/AIDS, or other causes.
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A very small number of cases have been reported following blood transfusion and organ transplantation in North America. All donated blood in North America is now screened for West Nile virus.
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Patients who are immunocompromised, such those with HIV or organ transplants, especially heart transplants, are at greater risk for primary lymphoma of the brain.
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It can also be transmitted during sexual intercourse, organ transplants and blood transfusions. In developed countries, blood supplies are screened for CMV when they're to be used for those at greatest risk from the infection.
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Immunosuppression may be deliberately induced with drugs, as in preparation for bone marrow or other organ transplantation to prevent rejection of the donor tissue.
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A tuberculosis medication (rifampin).
A medication used to prevent rejection in organ transplants (cyclosporine).
Allergy medications called terfenadine and astemizole (Hismanal).
A blood thinner called warfarin sodium (Coumadin).
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Because of the antigen differences existing between individuals, blood groups are significant in blood transfusions, maternal-fetal incompatibilities (erythroblastosis fetalis), tissue and organ transplantation.
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hepatitis C, which may be spread by infected IV drug users, by blood transfusions that were not screened for hepatitis, and by some organ transplants.
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