Topic > Essay on Organ Failure - 1955

With many causes of organ failure leading to a death sentence, a long-term treatment needed to be found. In December 1954, the first organ was transplanted from living donor to living recipient, which was between twin brothers, and was to be the next direction of treatment. With the invention of the immunosuppressant cyclosporine it was thought that the cure for organ failure had been found. It would be the answer to organ failure until procurement laws could keep up with the need for organs, which formed a patient roster called the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). The scientist and doctors went back to the drawing board to design bioengineered organs using stem cells in matrices. Multiple biometric data are used for bioengineered organs. Introduction At one point in history, any type of organ failure was a death sentence. Many causes lead to organ failure, whether it is congenital causes, abuse or disease, it is an unfortunate circumstance. This was the case until December 23, 1954, when the first live organ transplant, from a living donor to a living recipient, was performed in the United States. The first transplant ever conducted was on an individual in need of a kidney, and was performed using identical twins (Kaserman Ph.D, 2007). The new technology leads to a whole new list of pathways in the field of organ transplants that would lead to a huge change in the future of medicine and that of people who need life-saving procedures. These pathways became easier in 1983 with the invention of the immunosuppressant called cyclosporine, which allows for cadaveric organ donation (Kaserman Ph.D, 2007). Unfortunately, the organ procurement bill has failed to hold... half of the paper......http://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/factsheet/Organ-Donation-and-Transplantation- Stats .cfmFukumits, K., Yogi, H., & Soto-Gutierrez, A. (2011). Bioengineering in organ transplantation: targeting the liver. Translation Proceedings, 43, 2137-2138. Retrieved May 30, 2014Kaserman Ph.D, DL (2007). Fifty years of organ transplants: the successes and failures. Problems of law and medicine, 23(1), 45-69. Retrieved May 30, 2014UNOS. (1984). United Organ Sharing Network. Retrieved July 20, 2014, from http://www.unos.org/about/index.php?topic=historyYen, E.F., Hardinger, K., Brennan, D.C., Woodward, R.S., Desai, N.M., Crippin, J.S., . . . Schnitzler, M. A. (2004). Cost-effectiveness of extending Medicare coverage of immunosuppressive drugs to the life of a kidney transplant recipient. American Journal of Transplantation, 4, 1703-1708. Retrieved May 30, 2014