transplant surgery
Moving bodily parts
Transplant surgery is the surgical procedure of moving an organ or tissue from one body to another, or from one location to another within the same body.
The term covers both harvesting from donors and implanting in recipients: She's on the transplant surgery schedule for tomorrow.
Heart, kidney, liver, and lung transplants are the most common organ transplant surgeries.
- kidneyBlood-filtering organ
- liverAbdominal detoxifying organ
- recipientOne who receives something
- new lease on lifeRenewed vitality and purpose
- heartCirculatory system's pump
lung · organ donor · donor card · donor · organ harvesting · waiting list · waiting game · xenotransplantation · incision · tissue matching · cornea · psychological support · bone marrow · nephrology · organ rejection · brain death · immunosuppressants · cardiology
- surgeriesappendectomy, hysterectomy, mastectomy, cholecystectomy, tonsillectomy
- medical treatmentschemotherapy, physical therapy, gene therapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy
- organ transplantsorgan donation, living donor, deceased donor, waiting list, donor registry
- surgerysurgeon, surgeons, operation, incision, scalpel
- transplantsorgan donation, allograft, autograft, autotransplant, xenotransplant
- pediatric surgeryappendectomy, malrotation, atresia, neuroblastoma, hernia repair
transplant surgeryreconstructive surgery
Procedures restoring normal appearance
tissue repair · corrective surgery · resection · ablation · bypass surgery
transplant surgerywatchful waiting
Monitoring before acting
non-invasive treatment · palliative care · medical management · supportive care · hospice care