Organ transplantation
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Description:
Transplantation — in medicine change of any body or fabric, for example, kidneys, hearts, a liver, a lung, marrow, stem hemopoietic cells, hair.
Distinguish the following types of transplantation:
- autotransplantation, or autologous transplantation — the recipient of a transplant is his donor for themselves. For example, autotransplantation of skin from the unimpaired sites on burned widely is applied at heavy burns. Autotransplantation of marrow or haematopoietic stem cells after high-dose antineoplastic chemotherapy is widely applied at leukoses, lymphoma and himiochuvstvitelny malignant tumors.
- isogenic transplantation — the donor of a transplant is 100% genetically and immunological the unioval twin of the recipient identical to the recipient.
- allotransplantation, or homotransplantation — the donor of a transplant is genetically and immunological a different human body.
- xenotransplantation, or trans-species transplantation — organ transplantation from animal other species.
Transplantation of a kidney
