has there ever been a brain transplant?
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Theoretically, a person with advanced organ failure could be given a new and functional body while keeping their own personality, memories, and consciousness through such a procedure. No human brain transplant has ever been conducted.
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No psychosurgical operations were performed in England between 1999 and 2009; one operation was performed in 2010 in Bristol. In total, over 20,000 people have undergone psychosurgical operations in the United Kingdom.
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Yes, in most cases. Hair transplants can work for many types of men with male pattern baldness. However, the effectiveness of a hair transplant largely depends on: the quality of the transplant.
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One person can save eight lives and enhance 75 others through organ, eye and tissue donation. Nearly 114,000 Americans are currently waiting for an organ transplant, nearly 22,000 live in California. An organ transplant is their only remaining medical option.
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Organs are never removed until a patient's death has been confirmed in line with these criteria. Death is confirmed by doctors who are entirely independent of the transplant team and this is done in the same way for people who donate organs as for those who do not.
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A person who's brain dead is legally confirmed as dead. They have no chance of recovery because their body is unable to survive without artificial life support.
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A liver transplant is surgery to replace a diseased liver with a healthy liver from another person. A whole liver may be transplanted, or just part of one. In most cases the healthy liver will come from an organ donor who has just died. Sometimes a healthy living person will donate part of their liver.
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Hair transplants are carried out by qualified hair transplant surgeons and don't have significant long-term side effects. Unlike hair weaving, this process is a permanent solution for baldness. So if you're looking for a permanent solution for your bald spot, hair transplant is the best choice.
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A pancreas transplant can cure diabetes and eliminate the need for insulin shots. However, because of the risks involved with surgery, most people with type 1 diabetes do not have a pancreas transplant shortly after they are diagnosed. Pancreas transplant is rarely done alone.
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Mechanical support (a breathing machine) keeps oxygen going to the organs until they can be recovered for transplant. The machine is not keeping the patient alive (brain death is irreversible and is legally and medically recognized as death), it is merely keeping the organs viable until they can be recovered.
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Having an organ transplant can be a traumatic experience, but imagine how it feels to be transplanted twice! Yes. Sometimes patients will receive heart or liver transplants but die anyway within a few weeks. In very rare cases, the donated organ was still healthy enough to be worth re-transplanting to a new patient.
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Neil Lazar, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto who has written about deceased organ donation: “if you ask whether a person whose brain has not been receiving blood flow for five minutes is able to experience pain, the answer to that is that it's very unlikely.
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Unlike other surgeries, such as pallidotomy or thalamotomy, DBS does not damage the brain tissue. Thus, if better treatments develop in the future, the DBS procedure can be reversed.
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The discussion of brain death dates back to the 1950s in France with six patients who were kept "alive" for between two and 26 days without blood flow to the brain. This generated the idea that "perhaps there's a second way to die, because these patients will eventually die," Greene-Chandos said.
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Both computers and brain have repair and “backup” systems. The brain has “built-in back up systems” in some cases. If one pathway in the brain is damaged, there is often another pathway that will take over this function of the damaged pathway. Similar to a computer, where backup files can be stored in the computer.
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Liver transplants are generally very successful and most people are eventually able to return to their normal activities afterwards. It can take a year or more to fully recover.
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On 3 December 1967, a large medical, nursing, and technical team led by the surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first human to human heart transplant, placing Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, on the international map.