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• Organ transplant — An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient s own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient s damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site …   Wikipedia

• Major Organ transplant — Медицина: трансплантация жизненно важных органов …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

• Organ transplantation — Intervention Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplant the (black) leg of a Moor onto the (white) body of Justinian. Ditzingen, 16th century ICD 10 PCS …   Wikipedia

• Organ donation — Intervention Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body, from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation. Transplantable organs and tissues are removed in a surgical procedure …   Wikipedia

• Organ transplantation in Japan — is regulated by the 1997 Organ Transplant Law which legalized organ procurement from brain dead donors.[1] After an early involvement in organ transplantation that was on a par with developments in the rest of the world, attitudes in Japan… …   Wikipedia

• Transplant rejection — Classification and external resources Micrograph showing lung transplant rejection. Lung biopsy. H E stain. ICD …   Wikipedia

• Organ trade — is the trade involving human organs for transplantation. There is a worldwide shortage of organs available for transplantation,[1] possibly a result of regulations forbidding their trafficking.[2] Contents 1 Legal organ trade …   Wikipedia

• Organ transplantation in Israel — is regulated by two laws passed in 2008. The first law defines brain death as an indication of death for all legal purposes, including organ donation. A second law provides financial and other benefits to living donors and outlaws organ… …   Wikipedia

• Organ harvesting — Intervention MeSH D020858 Organ harvesting refers to the removal, preservation and use of human organs and tissue from the bodies of the recently deceased to be used in surgical transplants on the living. Though mired in ethical debate and… …   Wikipedia

• Organ harvesting in the People's Republic of China — refers to the practice of removing human organs and tissue to be used in transplants for Chinese and other recipients.HistoryIn 1992, the Laogai Foundation, set up by Chinese dissident Harry Wu, was instrumental in proving (using court files,… …   Wikipedia