Transplants
6 pages
Each procedure explained end to end — evaluation, the operation, recovery, risks and costs — with a named source behind every factual claim.
Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant: Types, Donors & Recovery
A bone marrow transplant uses healthy blood-forming stem cells to rebuild the bone marrow and blood system after disease or intensive treatment. Stem cells may come from the patient, a matched donor or donated umbilical cord blood.
ReviewedCorneal transplant
A corneal transplant replaces damaged corneal tissue with tissue from a deceased donor, supplied by an eye bank. Modern techniques replace only the diseased layer, which has transformed recovery times and lowered rejection risk.
ReviewedHeart transplant
A heart transplant replaces a failing heart with one from a deceased donor. There is no living-donor route, so access depends entirely on a national waiting list — which is why it cannot be arranged by travelling abroad.
ReviewedKidney Transplant: Eligibility, Surgery, Donors & Recovery
A kidney transplant replaces kidney function by placing a healthy donor kidney into a person with kidney failure. It can offer longer survival and better quality of life than long-term dialysis for suitable patients, but requires donor matching, major surgery and lifelong anti-rejection treatment.
ReviewedLiver Transplant: Eligibility, Surgery, Donors, Risks & Recovery
A liver transplant replaces a failing liver with a healthy liver from a deceased donor or part of a liver from a living donor. It can be life-saving for selected patients with severe liver disease or acute liver failure.
ReviewedLung transplant
A lung transplant replaces one or both failing lungs with lungs from a deceased donor. Allocation is national and urgency-based, so it cannot be arranged by travelling, and the long-term limit is chronic allograft dysfunction rather than the operation.
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