TIMESINDONESIA, JAKARTA – To donate an organ might be a little bit creepy word to hear. Little did you know, in real life one organ donor has the potential to save or improve the lives of up to 50 people with donated organs and tissues.
Heart, lungs, and kidneys are common organs to be donated. But there some organs you might unfamiliar with. We have listed them for you as taken from Health.
CORNEAS
This procedure needed to help those patients which lost his sight for having a broken cornea. The procedure called as keratoplasty, a cornea transplant is a surgical procedure to replace part of a damaged cornea with corneal tissue from a deceased donor. This procedure has a bigger chance to bring back the patient’s sight.
BONES
Donating bones and connective tissue helps many individuals with various orthopedic and neurosurgical conditions. The bones and tissue could help in certain cases such as back, joint, and leg surgeries, including hip replacement, knee reconstruction, and spinal fusion.
INTESTINES
Intestinal failure leads to malnutrition or even death. Most intestine transplants require removing the whole organ from a deceased donor. Transplants have to be blood typed and matched for the size and weight of the donor.
VEINS
Because of disease or trauma, many people lose circulation to their legs. However, veins from deceased donors help circulation in a variety of patients and procedures, ranging from restoring circulation in heart bypass surgeries to preventing leg amputations.
SKIN
To donate your skin can be very beneficial to the healing process for burn victims or others who suffer from a disfiguring injury or disease. Skin graft transplants are good for protecting the area from infection while promoting the regeneration the recipients own skin. (*)
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| Editor | : Khodijah Siti |
| Publisher | : Lucky Setyo Hendrawan |
