Kidney Transplantation

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 ...