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Organ Transplantation
You may need an organ transplant if one of your own organs has failed. This can happen because of illness or injury. When you have an organ transplant, doctors remove an organ from another person and place it in your body.
The organs that can be transplanted include
People who need an organ transplant often have to wait a long time for one. Doctors must match donors to recipients to reduce the risk of transplant rejection. This is when the recipient's body turns against the new organ, causing it to fail. People who have transplants must take drugs the rest of their lives to help keep their bodies from rejecting the new organ.
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Start Here
- Organ Transplantation: Questions and Answers(United Network for Organ Sharing)
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Overviews
- Partnering with Your Transplant Team(Health Resources and Services Administration, United Network for Organ Sharing) - PDF
- What Every Patient Needs to Know(United Network for Organ Sharing) - PDF
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Latest News
- Melanoma Odds Doubled for Transplant, Lymphoma Patients(10/10/2012, HealthDay)
- Teen Doing Well 2 Years After Stem Cell Windpipe Transplant(07/26/2012, HealthDay)
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Treatment
- After the Transplant: Medications(United Network for Organ Sharing)
- Selecting a Transplant Hospital(United Network for Organ Sharing)
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Disease Management
- After the Transplant(United Network for Organ Sharing)
- Health After Transplantation(American Society of Transplantation)
- Also available in Spanish
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Specific Conditions
- Cornea Transplant(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Intestinal Transplantation(American Society of Transplantation) - PDF
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Related Issues
- About Organ Allocation(United Network for Organ Sharing)
- Food Safety for Transplant Recipients(Food and Drug Administration)
- Getting on the List(United Network for Organ Sharing)
- Infection and Malignancy(American Society of Transplantation)
- Also available in Spanish
- Organ Transplant Increases Risk of Skin Cancer(American Academy of Dermatology)
- Organ Transplant Patients: Pet Safety Tips(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Organ Transplantation and Your Mouth(National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research)
- Xenotransplantation(Food and Drug Administration)
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Videos
- Clinical Perspectives: 7-Year-Old Girl Has 6 Organs Removed and Retransplanted(OR-Live) - Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, New York, NY, 6/17/2009
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Financial Issues
- Financing a Transplant(United Network for Organ Sharing)
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Clinical Trials
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Organ Transplantation(National Institutes of Health)
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Organ Transplantation
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Research
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Organ Transplants without Life-Long Drugs(National Institutes of Health)
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Organ Transplants without Life-Long Drugs
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Journal Articles
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
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Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Transplant Glossary(Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network)
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Directories
- Accredited Eye Banks(Eye Bank Association of America)
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network: Member Directory(Health Resources and Services Administration, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, United Network for Organ Sharing)
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Organizations
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Women
- Pregnancy After Transplant(United Network for Organ Sharing)
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Patient Handouts
- Corneal transplant
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- Corneal transplant - discharge
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- Transplant rejection
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- Transplant services
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