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I looked into the many miscellaneous facts about organ donation and why they are important.
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There are many new developments in the field of organ donation, making the process more efficient each day. However the human body is an unknown factor that can always complicate things. Hopefully in the future there will be no need for donors because the necessary organ could be printed.
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I looked into the many miscellaneous facts about organ donation and why they are important.
Point
- Even though a person might need a kidney transplant because their old ones do not work anymore they will leave the old kidneys in the patient.
- It is not certain that your body will ever accept a new organ, even with anti-rejection drugs. But there is also a chance that your body will never reject the organ in the first place. This leads doctors to believe that there are more mechanisms at work than are currently known.
- One side effect of the anti-rejection drug can be diabetes.
- The Jewish faith prohibits heart donation because the person is not seen as dead when they are brain dead.
- Working 3D printed organs have been successfully produced but the process is not refined yet so there are many years between us and the day 3D printed organs can be used.
- The only time that a person is garenteed that they would not need anti-rejection drugs is if an identical twin is the donor.
There are many new developments in the field of organ donation, making the process more efficient each day. However the human body is an unknown factor that can always complicate things. Hopefully in the future there will be no need for donors because the necessary organ could be printed.
Retrieved from:
http://listverse.com/2014/11/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-organ-transplantation/