Uterus Transplantation: Challenges and the Dawn of a New Organ Transplantation

Organ trafficking and transplantation pose new challenges.

Challenges in Organ Transplantation

Organ transplantation has progressed tremendously with improvements in surgical methods, organ preservation, and pharmaco-immunologic therapies and has become a critical pathway in the management of severe organ failure worldwide. The major sources of organs are deceased donors after brain death; however, a substantial number of organs come from live donations, and a significant number can also...

A Study on Information Sources of Patients Receiving Organ Transplantation

Objective Access to quality information is essential for greater patient participation in treatment. This study aims to investigate the information sources of organ transplant recipients in Mashhad, Iran. Methods This analytical cross-sectional study was carried out from December 2017 to May 2018. Participants were 115 patients who received liver and kidney transplantation in Montaseriyeh Hosp...

Bioengineering for Organ Transplantation: Progress and Challenges.

Organ transplantation can offer a curative option for patients with end stage organ failure. Unfortunately the treatment is severely limited by the availability of donor organs. Organ bioengineering could provide a solution to the worldwide critical organ shortage. The majority of protocols to date have employed the use of decellularization-recellularization technology of naturally occurring ti...

Transplantation of the uterus.

Most women with uterine factor infertility have today no prospect of carrying a pregnancy to term. The development of a method for transplantation of the human uterus would be a means for many of these women to become both genetic and gestational mothers. In this article we review the literature concerning the history and recent development in the area of uterine transplantation. We describe ou...