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An organ transplant is the transplantation of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site. Organ donors can be living, or deceased (previously referred to as cadaveric). Types of Transplants Autograft A transplant of tissue from one to oneself. Sometimes this is done with surplus tissue, or tissue that can regenerate, or ti ...
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Heart Transplantation Organizations
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases http://www.cancer.gov/
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
- American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Food and Drug Administration
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- United Network for Organ Sharing http://www.unos.org/
- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
- Texas Heart Institute http://www.texasheartinstitute.org
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
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