TRANSPLANTS
A transplant is a medical treatment that lies in moving organs from a patient to another one, and thus the transplanted organ replaces and assumes the functions that were performed by the recipient’s original organ. These treatments These treatments often carry a risk of organ rejection, which depends on the type of transplant.
There are several types of transplants:
- Autograft: The donor and the recipient are the same person. There’s no rejection.
- Isograft: The donor and the recipient are two genetically identical members of the same species. There’s a little risk of rejection.
- Allograft: The donor and the recipient are two genetically non-identical members of the same species. In most of cases the patient has to take drugs to avoid rejection during the graft’s life.
- Xenograft: The donor and the recipient and not member of the same species. The patient will have also has to take drugs to avoid rejection during the graft’s life.
Currently we consider two type of transplants: