When the possibilities for treating certain diseases run out, the only remaining alternative is to replace the sick organ with another one through a transplant. The organs can come from a live person (as long as it does not cause harm to that person, as in the case of kidney donation) or from a donor corpse. Today the most novel transplant is the face transplant, which involves working with many nerves and is highly complex.

Organ Transplants

Of the two types of transplant operations (organs and They require complex surgeries to achieve the splicing of tissues), organ transplants are by far the more difficult. They require complex surgeries to achieve the splicing of vessels and ducts. Tissue transplants are simpler: cells are injected, to be implanted later.

Types of Transplants

ALLOGRAFT: Consists of the donation of organs from one individual to another genetically different individual of the same species.

AUTOGRAFT: A transplant in which the donor and the recipient are the same person. The typical case is a skin graft from a healthy site to an injured one.

ISOGRAFT: A transplant in which the donor and the recipient are genetically identical.

XENOGRAFT: A transplant in which the donor and the recipient are of different species. This type generates the strongest rejection response by the body of the recipient.

Heart Transplant

Heart transplant is, in general, the preferred treatment for heart failure when it is deemed that the possibility of survival and the quality of life cannot improve with any other traditional therapeutic alternative. The problem lies in establishing when other medical options should be discarded on the basis of this criterion. According to the American Heart Association, the clearest indications that such a transplant must be carried out are: cardiogenic shock, severe symptoms of ischemia that limit daily activity and ventricular arrhythmias.

Liver Transplant

People who suffer advanced, irreversible, life-threatening hepatic conditions now have the possibility of an attempted liver transplant. The most typical liver transplant cases are those of people who suffer chronic hepatitis or primary biliary cirrhosis, an autoimmune disease. Patients must not be infected in any way and cannot be suffering from any cardiac or pulmonary disease at the time.

The mouth and nose of another person 

The operation for replacing the damaged face is still in its developing stage.

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