Transplants
Introduction: Transplants
Transplants involve the transfer of human body cells or organs
from one person to another.
The most well-known transplants are full organ transplants
such as kidney transplants,
liver transplants, lung transplants, and heart transplants.
However, there are actually many types of transplants:
The most common type of transplants are from one person to another.
Other types of transplants are:
- Autologous transplants - The transfer of cells from the same person back to themself.
Common examples are hair transplants, skin grafts, or self-blood transfusions (e.g. own blood stored prior
to use in a scheduled surgical operation).
These self-transplants avoid the possiblity of transplant rejection or GVHD
as complications of a transplant.
- Xenotransplants - The transplant of animal cells or organs, such as from pigs.
Transplants and contagion:
Yes, it is possible for a person receiving
a transplant to get an infectious disease from a transplanted organ.
However, it does not seem possible to contract cancer
or autoimmunity from a transplant.
Perhaps it is theoretically possible, but such cases are very rare.
Transplants and genetic diseases:
One interesting factor about transplants
is that they have different DNA to the person receiving the transplant.
This makes transplants an effective treatment for some genetic diseases.
For example, a person with cystic fibrosis who receives a lung transplant (or a
double lung transplant)
will no longer have CF-related lung problems in the transplanted lung.
Basic Information: Transplants
Count: Transplants is listed as a:
treatment for 66 conditions;
alternative treatment for 0 conditions;
preventive treatment for 0 conditions;
research treatment for 9 conditions.
Treatment types for Transplants:
Bone marrow transplant (20), Liver transplant (18), kidney transplant (19), heart transplant (6), xenotransplant, corneal transplant (1), islet cell transplant, stem cell transplant
Treatments: list of all treatments
List of Diseases with Transplants as a Treatment
The following list of conditions
have 'Transplants' or similar
listed as a treatment in our database:
A
Agammaglobulinemia, alymphocytotic type
... bone marrow transplantAutoimmune Hepatitis
... liver transplantAutosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
... kidney transplantB
Back tumour
... Bone marrow transplantBiliary Atresia
... liver transplantationBiliary cirrhosis
... liver transplantC
Cardiomyopathy
... heart transplantationCholestasis, progressive familial intrahepatic 3
... liver transplantChronic Granulomatous Disease
... bone marrow transplantClassic childhood ALD
... bone marrow transplantsCongestive Heart Failure
... heart transplantationD
Diabetic Nephropathy
... kidney transplantDilated cardiomyopathy
... heart transplantE
End Stage Liver Failure
... Liver transplantationEnd-stage renal disease
... kidney transplantF
Fanconi anemia type C
... bone marrow transplantG
Glomerular Disease
... Kidney transplantsGlomerulonephritis
... kidney transplantH
Heart failure
... heart transplantHematochromatosis
... Liver transplantationHepatitis
... liver transplantHepatitis B
... liver transplantHepatoma
... liver transplantationHip cancer
... Bone marrow transplantHydrops fetalis syndrome due to Beta-thalassemia
... bone marrow transplantI
Idiopathic dilation cardiomyopathy
... heart transplantIdiopathic liver cirrhosis
... Liver transplantationInterferon gamma, receptor 1, deficiency
... bone marrow transplantK
Keratoconus
... corneal transplantKidney disease
... kidney transplantKidney stones
... kidney transplantKrabbé Disease
... bone marrow transplantationL
Leukemia
... bone marrow transplantation (BMT)Leukocyte Adhesion Defect
... bone marrow transplantLiver cancer
... liver transplantationLiver failure
... Liver transplant, Liver transplantationM
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
... Bone marrow transplantationMobius syndrome
... microvascular muscle transplantMosse syndrome
... Liver transplantationMucopolysaccharidoses
... bone marrow transplantsN
Nephronophthisis familial, adult - spastic quadriparesis
... kidney transplantNephronophtisis familial, adult form - spastic quadriparesia
... kidney transplantNephrosis, idiopathic form, familial
... kidney transplantNephrosis, idiopathic, sporadic form
... kidney transplantNephrotic syndrome type 2
... kidney transplantNephrotic syndrome, early onset, type 3
... kidney transplantNephrotic syndrome, idiopathic, steroid-resistant, autosomal recessive
... kidney transplantNephrotic syndrome, idiopathic, steroid-resistant, familial
... kidney transplantNephrotic syndrome, steroid-resistant, sporadic idiopathic
... kidney transplantNon-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
... bone marrow transplantationO
Obstructive Jaundice
... Liver transplantationOptic nerve coloboma with renal disease
... kidney transplantOsteopetrosis lethal
... bone marrow transplantP
Polycystic kidney disease
... kidney transplantPrimary Immune Deficiency
... Umbilical cord blood transplants, bone marrow transplantPrimary pulmonary hypertension
... heart-lung transplantR
Rib Tumor
... Bone marrow transplantS
SCID
... bone marrow transplantSclerosing Cholangitis
... Liver transplantationSecondary Biliary Cirrhosis
... liver transplantSevere combined immunodeficiency, atypical
... bone marrow transplantU
Uremia
... kidney transplantV
Viral Hepatitis
... liver transplantVitiligo
... Autologous melanocyte transplantsW
Wilson's Disease
... liver transplant, Liver transplantationWiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
... bone marrow transplantation
List of Diseases with Transplants as a Research Treatment
The following list of conditions
have 'Transplants' or similar
listed as a research treatment or other research area in our database:
A
Ataxia Telangiectasia
... bone marrow transplants, transplants of thymus tissueB
Brain cancer
... bone marrow transplantationBreast Cancer
... bone marrow transplantation, autologous bone marrow transplants, peripheral stem cell transplantsC
Congenital heart defects
... Heart transplantationCongestive Heart Failure
... xenotransplantationH
Hodgkin's Disease
... peripheral stem cell transplantation, bone marrow transplantationM
Multiple Myeloma
... bone marrow transplantationN
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
... peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, bone marrow transplantationS
Sickle Cell Anemia
... Bone marrow transplantation
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