2023-10-29 14:00:27
To continue living, the only alternative many people have is for others to donate a part of their body. The organ donation and fabrics is an act of altruism and solidarity and below we will tell you everything you need to know about it.
What can be donated in organ donation
Los organs that can be donated are several:
Lungs Intestine Heart Pancreas Liver Kidneys
As for the fabricsthose that can be donated are: corneas, skin, bone, cartilage, tendons, blood vessels, heart valves, blood, amniotic membrane of the placenta and hermatopoietic progenitors.
Can you donate any tissue or organ while you are alive?
Organ donation can be done both during life and after death. Likewise, you can donate body to science. When an effective organ donation occurs, it is not compatible with a donation to science, because the necessary conservation of the body cannot be carried out.
Living donors are those who donate a double organ, such as a part of the liver, kidney, lung, pancreas or a tissue such as blood, bone marrow and the umbilical cord. In the case of living organ donation, transplanted organs are almost always immediate family of the donors (parents, children, siblings, etc.).
Unlike other organs, the kidney can be obtained from living and healthy donors, since we have two and can live with one. The removal of one of the two kidneys that a human being has, like the rest of the surgical interventions, has a very low risk.
On the other hand, the sangre What we transfuse always comes from living, healthy citizens who voluntarily and periodically submit to the donation.
In order to donate organs while alive, you must be of legal age and in good physical and mental health. The legislation guarantees that all rights of both the donor and the recipient are fulfilled and that it is voluntary, free and altruistic. In addition, the law stipulates that the donation must be reviewed by an Ethics Committee and that the donor must always ratify their decision.
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