You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

Kacey ago

A thought I had this morning...just how many organs are officially transplanted a year. I found 16,000 kidneys https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/07/4-facts-you-need-to-know-about-kidney-transplants-and-dialysis/ 5,000 hearts https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/07/4-facts-you-need-to-know-about-kidney-transplants-and-dialysis/ I wonder if there is a black market for the transplants as well as for the harvesting. It is my impression that the numbers of illegal organ harvests are greater than the number of transplants. If so where are the surgeries done?

TippyHome ago

There is absolutely a black market for transplants. Medical personnel all know there is-it's been covered in their conferences and conventions. It is a dangerous, very illicit practice, but some countries and their leaders look the other way. Black market organs are transplanted in Europe and ME, at these complicit countries. This is more than likely not happening in the US, except for the super rich being able to have it take place in the US. When people say pg or pdg is not real, I think of the doctors and nurses all around the Earth who know it is real. But, they are every bit as frightened to do the actual whistle blowing they could do. Narcissism was right about children not being viable, because adults need organs that are close to the same size as their diseased ones. There are a few tiny women and a few children who need smaller organs, but that is not the greatest need. Sometimes I wish that I was not aware of what is going on. So much evil in this world. So much.

jangles ago

The challenge with children's organs is not just size or blood type. It is much more complicated than that. Here is some public information.

This December 2016 publication notes the science needed to transplant organs from "recipient age mismatch in transplants"

Identification of miR-31-5p, miR-141-3p, miR-200c-3p, and GLT1 as human liver aging markers sensitive to donor–recipient age-mismatch in transplants

‘Rejuvenation’ effects have been reported in ‘heterochronic parabiosis’ experiments in mice (Conboy et al., 2005; Villeda et al., 2014), while in humans, the possibility to study rejuvenation effects are challenging. Liver transplantation, when a consistent donor–recipient mismatch is present, may be considered a sort of parabiotic experiments, thus representing a good model to study the effect of systemic environment (recipient) on the transplanted organ. We found an impressive effect of recipients, but further studies on a higher number of donor–recipient age-mismatches need to confirm and extend the results here reported.


This study, in the context of the protocol of donor–recipient allograft performed at General Surgery and Transplant Unit (S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy), received the approval of the local ethical committee (code: 44/2008/Tess). Seventy-one liver biopsies of about 50-60 mg were obtained from 71 heart-beating and brain death donors aged from 12 up to 92 years. Tissue samples were obtained just after midline incision and thus before aorta cross-clamping and flushing. All liver grafts were used for liver transplantation, and none of them was discarded as nonsuitable.

The tissues needed need to be monitored and regulated more.