WHAT IS ORGAN TRANSPORT?

What is Organ Transplant?

In order for the transplantation to take place, a donor and a recipient will receive the organ to which the transplantation will take place. Organ transplantation is the replacement of a healthy organ or part of the organ to be given by the donor to the damaged or non-functioning organ in the recipient. In transplantation, the donor who will give the organ can be alive or cadaver. While organs such as the heart and pancreas have to be transplanted from the cadaver, other organs can also be transplanted from individuals in life.
If you need to look at the elements sought for organ transplantation; first, there is a necessity and there is a belief that the patient will recover with this treatment. However, the person who will give the organ and the patient must have consent to this transplant. organ transplant patients from an individual who has made a life operations in Turkey 75% - in the range of 80 25% while abroad, this ratio is around average. And cadaver transplants are around 75 - 80.
It was in the eighteenth century when the Italian surgeon Baronio stated that a careful piece of skin from the patient's body could be transplanted to the same person.
Organ transplantation studies have started primarily on animals and then organ transplant trials have been conducted in humans. Kidney transplantation on 1956 Muray et al.

History of Transplantation

17. century, first skin transplantation performed. As for 1912, Alexis Carrel performed kidney transplantation in dogs. And he received the Nobel Prize for this work. In 1916, the first kidney transplantation was performed from person to person, although the first kidney transplantation was performed at 1933. However, the first successful kidney transplant operation was performed at 1954. This study was conducted on identical twins and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1990.
Organ Transplantation in Turkey
22 for the first time Although the heart transplantation was performed in Ankara Yüksek İhtisas Hospital on November 1968, the operation resulted in the loss of the patient. The first successful organ transplant was Dr. Mehmet Haberal's kidney was transferred from a mother to his son. This was done by cadaver transplantation in 1978. He continued with liver transplantation performed by the same team.

Who can become a donor?

According to the regulation of the Ministry of Health, transfer can be made to relatives up to the fourth degree. At the same time, with the approval of the Regional Ethics Committee, transplants can be performed from unrelated individuals. In terms of organ transplantation, donor exchanges, also called cross-transplant exchanges, can be realized with legal means.

How to Organ Transplant?

If a person is going to donate his organs after his death, in this case, as per the law, he will do so by submitting to the competent authority after completing the document stating that he has donated his organs after he died with two witnesses. In this case, the driver's license should also be marked as part of the donation of organs. If the document is kept with the person, donation can be made. However, the person has the opportunity to give up after making a donation decision.