Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine

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 Transplantation is slowly becoming an accepted means of saving lives in most parts of the planet. A transplant vault was begun in Asia in 1989 to remain track of the quantities of focuses performing transplants, quantities of patients on holding up records, quantities of patients traveling to another country for transplants, the exact organ types experiencing transplant, and moral and social issues identified with transplantation .Transplantation rates vary widely by country: for instance , only 85 kidney transplants were administered in Bangladesh from 1995 to 1999, whereas China performed 14,717 within the same period. For example, a cerebral death law was implemented in Japan only in 1997. In several countries, the donor must conform to very strict criteria, the donor's family must approve, and therefore the donor must have signed a written legal document indicating an intention to donate organs. Partly due to a scarcity of cadaveric donors, a comparatively modest total of 540 heart transplants and 71 lung transplants were administered in 11 member countries between 1995 and 1999. Interestingly, the annual number of heart transplants in Asia dropped between 1998 and 1999 thanks to a decrease in donors following the introduction of mandatory motorcycle helmet use in Taiwan. Acceptable sources of donated organs vary in member Asian countries, with living, related kidney donors being far more common in India than in China. Numbers of living liver donors were also increasing within the late 1990s. Waiting lists are a problem in Asia as they're in Western countries. Prospective recipients wait almost 5 years for a kidney transplant within the most advanced of member countries.  

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