Organ transplantation is the process of transfer of an organ from one body to another. Organ transplantation is the only solution for the end state of an organ failure such as heart, lung, Kidney, Bone Marrow and kidney.
Many times the patient has to wait for long time for an organ to be transplanted, as doctors decide and match the correct organ from the donor so as to reduce the risk of transplant rejection by the body’s immune system.
Some of the organs that can be transplanted for the cure of life are:
- Bone Marrow transplant
- Liver transplant
- Lungs transplant
- Kidney transplant
- Heart transplant
Bone Marrow transplant:
Bone marrow is a spongy tissue inside some of the bones in the body including the hip and thigh bone. Bone marrow consists of immature cells called as stem cells.
A number of people with blood cancer and other such life threatening diseases mostly rely upon bone marrow or cold blood transplant to survive. People need healthy bone marrow to survive and lead a healthy life.
Factors about Bone marrow:
Bone marrow transplant can save the lives of people battling blood cancers.
At birth, all bone marrow is in red color. As the age increases red marrow increasingly begins to convert to yellow marrow.
Aplastic anemia is such a disorder where marrow stops making new blood cells (RBC’s).
Chemotherapy can damage bone marrow
Complications associated with Bone marrow transplant:
Bone marrow transplant is considered as one of the most major and crucial transplants and the transplant may increase the risk of-
Headache
Pain in bones
Fever
Shortened breath
Nausea
These factors are caused due to bone marrow transplant but these factors also depends on over your age, your health and the type of transplant you have gone under.
Even the patient can feel complications which can be mild or very serious after the transplant such as:
- GVHD i.e. Graft Versus host disease where the donor cells start to attack the patient’s body. This takes place when the transplanted bone Marrow does not produce any new cell as planned.
- Bleeding in various parts of the body such as brain and Lungs.
- Damage to various other organs.
- A person becomes Anemic.
Various types of bone marrow transplants are:
- Autologous Transplant
- Allogeneic Transplant
Typically the recovery time of a bone marrow transplant is around three months but to recover it may take around a year depending on various factors such as:
- Donor match
- Radiations
- Chemotherapy
- Place of transplant
- Health factors
It can also be a condition that after transplant the patient might experience some symptoms that might remain with him for a lifetime. The maximum cost of Bone Marrow transplant in India lies between 20 to 30 lakhs whereas it varies from place to place. Whereas, Heart surgeries are one of the rarest surgery and require so much of safety and precautions the heart surgery cost in India is no less than $7500.
Liver Transplant:
The liver is an important organ of our body and is located on the right side in our body behind the rib cage. It performs various kinds of function inside our body such as protein processing, fats, and carbohydrate processing. It also plays an important role by breaking down the toxic substances such as drugs and alcohol. Liver transplantation mostly occurs when our liver stops working and get damaged due to excessive intake of alcohols, drugs, and smoking.
Liver transplantation is a process where the damaged or diseased liver is replaced with a healthy liver. There is two type of donors for liver transplant such as-
- Deceased donor
- Living donor
Liver transplant surgery in India costs 18 to 20 lakh whereas it is not fixed, it varies from doctor to doctor and clinic to clinic.
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