Transplant Care

About Transplantation

About Transplantation1

Transplantation is a surgical procedure in which tissue or an organ is transferred from one area of a person’s body to another area, or from one person (the donor) to another person (the recipient).1

Types of Transplant1

  1. Autograft: Using one’s own tissue
  2. Allograft: Transplant of an organ between two genetically non identical individuals
  3. Isograft: Transplant of organ/tissue from a donor to genetically identical recipient
  4. Xenograft: Transplantation of organ/tissues forms one species to another
  5. Domino transplant: A combined heart-lung transplant performed in a patient with end-stage lung disease, but who still has adequate heart performance. The recipient’s original heart is transplanted into another recipient in the need of one

Transplantation in India2,3,4,5

  • In May 1965, the first ever human organ (kidney) transplant in India was conducted at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.2
  • The living kidney transplantation program in India is currently the second largest program in numbers after USA3
  • 61,821 organ transplants performed between 2013 and 20194
  • As of 2019, there were 550 transplant centres registered with state authorities and 140 non-transplant organ retrieval centers5

References:

  1. Job, K. , Antony, A. . Organ Donation and Transplantation: “Life after Death”. In: Tsoulfas, G. , editor. Organ Donation and Transplantation - Current Status and Future Challenges [Internet]. London: IntechOpen; 2018 [cited 2022 Apr 07]. Available from: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/62192 doi: 10.5772/intechopen.76962
  2. Acharya V N. Status of renal transplant in India--May 1994. J Postgrad Med 1994;40:158.
  3. Shroff S. Current trends in kidney transplantation in India. Indian J Urol. 2016;32(3):173-174. doi:10.4103/0970-1591.185092
  4. Kute VB, Godara S, Guleria S, et al. Is it Safe to Be Transplanted From Living Donors Who Recovered From COVID-19? Experience of 31 Kidney Transplants in a Multicenter Cohort Study From India. Transplantation. 2021;105(4):842-850. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000003609.
  5. Ramesh V, Pal C. Organ Donation and Transplantation in India in 2019. Exp Clin Transplant. 2021 Dec;19(12):1313-1321. doi: 10.6002/ect.2021.0105. Epub 2021 Oct 19.