Medical aspects
Wednesday 20 February 2008
- What is a Transplantation?
- What about Bone marrow ?
- Are medical conditions interfering with donation qualification?
- How is brain death diagnosed ?
- What's the difference between Coma and Brain death ?
- Where, in Switzerland, do the transplanted organs come from ?
- Are organs beeing cultured already today ?
Transplantation is a surgery, where a sick organ is beeing exchanged with a healthy one, which has been removed from a deceased person.
The patient, who will receive the organ is called receiver/ recipient. The deceased person is called donor.