Essay on Xenotransplantation

The medical practice of organ transplantation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years. Each year the medical profession takes more risk with decisions regarding transplants, how to allocate for organs, and most recently conducting transplants on children with adult organs. “An organ transplantation is a surgical operation where a failing or damaged organ in the human body is removed and replaced with a new one” (Caplan, 2009). Not all organs can be transplanted. The term “organ transplant” typically refers to transplants of solid organs: heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas, and intestines. There are two ways of receiving an organ transplant: from a living human or an organ from a

     The audience for this paper is comprised of those readers looking to gain knowledge on the issue of xenotransplantation. This group of people is unaware of the dynamics of the ethical arguments surrounding this current issue. This audience does not have a specific age or belief, reflecting the varied positions of the argument. Due to this hunger for factual information, they do not wish to have someone else’s views imposed on them. Instead, they wish to define and establish a view of their own.      

In order for transplants to be successful, there are steps that should be followed. From the beginning, the correct information should be given prior to

Doctors know all the medicines, the effects of medicines, they know everything about the human body. Doctors also know what type of tools to use and were they can put incisions in you. Doctors could use poison to kill Patients and nobody would be able to figure out how they died because they have some poisons that aren't traceable or found in the blood system. If you were a doctor, you'd make the perfect criminal.

Xenotransplantation is a controversial medical procedure that has been debated by medical ethicists for many years. Xenotransplantation or Xeno is defined as the short-term transplantation of animal tissues into a human. It has been argued that the procedure is unethical because of the use of animal organs. However, twenty two people die each day waiting for an organ transplant, so we must act soon to save the thousands of lives that are still waiting. Xenotransplantation is a highly debatable procedure and offers a unique solution to the ever growing organ transplant list, making it a viable and worthwhile procedure.

The medical industry had been achieving more in the stage of medical advancements, though they are still in the early phase. Artificial organs have been one of those achievements. Although they have achieved such, artificial organs are not perfect. Most doctors as well as patients would prefer to replace a dying organ with a compatible human organ, rather than with an artificial or animal organ. Yet due to a there being less organs donated than recipients, artificial and animal organs are becoming more common in transplants. Most of this issue is because people are unaware of how organ donation works, the organs that can be donated, how many people are in need, and the advancements that have happened in the field. Organ donation saves hundreds of lives every year, but many lives are recklessly lost due to a shortage of organ donors.

Available became controversial. While the question of the dialysis machine is still controversial, the health system was caught in another ethical dilemma regarding organ transplantation. Organ transplantation is closely linked to the issue of cleanliness because patients with kidney failure can get an organ transplant as an alternative to hemodialysis. The issue is complicated by the fact Medicare is financed by organ transplant, and there are those who believe that the distribution of rare transplant is not right. There are thousands of terminal patients whose lives can be saved by organ transplantation, but there are no formulas of work that can be used to determine which of the thousands of patients will be given priority. It is left to the discretion of medical officers to decide who is worth saving. The ability to keep someone alive by replacing one or more of their major organs is a splendid achievement of medicine of the 20th century.

Although people are dying on the waiting list for transplants (6) as xenotransplantation requires the farming and slaughtering of animals so that they can provide the organs, cells and tissue required many people believe that it is not worth the suffering of those animals. (7) The extent of the priority we give to human beings interest over animals is an important issue. Some Hindu and Buddhist groups oppose xenotransplantation for this very reason as they do not agree with harming animals for the benefit of others. (7) Even people who do not identify with a religion find that they oppose xenotransplantation as they have a strong affiliation with animal rights.

Xenotranplantation is the controversial procedure that involves the transplantation of an animal's live cells, tissues, body fluids, or organs

A xenotransplant is a perfect way to prolong someone’s life or allow the to heal faster and better. What this is is the process of grafting or transplanting organs or tissues between members of different species. These transplants can improve the life of many that has no hope on waiting for a transplant in the organ donor list by giving them some extra years.

To transplant a life-sustaining organ into a patient that has already been deemed non-adherent with their previous transplant would essentially be wasting that organ. In a study conducted by the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota, of 3,408 primary transplant

    Currently 70,000 Americans are on the organ waiting list and fewer than 20,000 of these people can hope to have their lives saved by human organ transplantation.1  As a result of this shortage, there has been a tremendous demand for research in alternative methods of organ transplantation.  Private companies are racing to develop these technologies with an estimated market of six billion dollars.2  Xenotransplantation, or cross-species organ transplantation, appears to be the most likely solution in the near future, and cloned pigs are the main candidates.  Pigs and humans have remarkable similarities in physiology, which along with cloning makes pigs strong possibilities for organ donors.  A

What if we had the ability to produce organs for dying patients who need them? What if we could save a life using a transplantation method to do so? What if animals were the key to saving their lives? With xenotransplantation, doctors and medical researchers could have the ability to save patients that are having organ failure. But what is it? Is it safe? How long have we known about it? Is it ethical towards society? These are some questions that arise when hearing about xenotransplantation. But by using animal to human xenotransplantation, researchers believe that they can resolve the shortage of the donation of human organs.

be willing to give up one of your organs to save their life? Or would you make

Physicians today are faced with a growing list of patients awaiting transplants for organs that have failed, but there are not enough donors to meet these needs. Countries all over the world have a “human organ shortage” and the waiting lists for organ transplants only seem to grow longer (Melo 427). In the United States 62,000 patients needed a kidney, liver, or pancreatic transplant in the year 2001. Xenotransplantation, which refers to the transplantation of organs, cells, or tissues from animal species into human beings, has been heralded as a promising technology that will help us save more lives and lessen the dire shortage of transplantable organs.