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The 58 pages that link to Organ transplantation, each with the reason it gives.

• ImmunosuppressionRelated: Immunosuppression helps prevent the recipient's immune system from rejecting a transplanted organ.

• Hematopoietic stem cell transplantationCompared with: Unlike solid-organ grafts, hematopoietic transplants aim to reconstitute a renewing blood-cell system.

• Immune systemRelated: Immune recognition of donor tissue creates a central challenge for transplantation.

• BioethicsRelated: Donation and allocation require judgments about consent, fairness, and medical need.

• Tissue engineeringCompared with: Tissue engineering seeks alternatives to donor-organ shortages, but complex organs remain difficult to build.

• ABO blood group systemNarrower topic: ABO antigens on vascular tissue can trigger rejection when donor and recipient groups mismatch.

• Regenerative medicineCompared with: It replaces a whole organ, whereas regenerative approaches aim to restore tissue or create substitutes.

• ToxoplasmosisRelated: Rarely, infected donor tissue can transmit the parasite to an immunosuppressed recipient.

• Immune toleranceRelated: Transplant medicine seeks donor-specific tolerance to limit rejection and long-term immunosuppression.

• PrednisoneRelated: Prednisone may be part of immunosuppressive regimens that prevent or treat rejection.

• Tissue (biology)Related: Transplanted organs contain multiple interacting tissues that must function together.

• ImmunologyRelated: Transplant success depends on controlling immune recognition of donor tissue.

• Organ donationRelated: Donation supplies the organs that transplantation places into recipients.

• Adaptive immune systemRelated: Adaptive recognition of donor antigens can drive graft rejection.

• Heart transplantationNarrower topic: Heart transplantation developed within the broader history of organ replacement surgery.

• Ischemia-reperfusion injuryRelated: A transplanted organ undergoes ischemia during preservation and reperfusion when circulation resumes.

• Resource allocationRelated: Transplant systems must allocate donated organs among patients with competing medical claims.

• Renal replacement therapyNarrower topic: Kidney transplantation is one instance of this broader form of treatment.

• LotteryRelated: Random lotteries have been proposed for allocating organs, though medical matching and urgency usually govern allocation.

• AzathioprineRelated: Azathioprine can suppress rejection responses as part of post-transplant immunosuppression.

• Organ systemRelated: Transplanted organs must function within and coordinate with the recipient's systems.

• Cold storage of organsNarrower topic: Cold storage makes transplantation across distance and time possible, while imposing limits on both.

• Immunosuppressive therapyRelated: Long-term immunosuppression helps prevent recipient immune cells from damaging a transplanted organ.

• SurgeryRelated: Transplant operations replace organs that cannot adequately perform their function.

• Cell therapyCompared with: It transfers an organized organ, whereas cell therapy administers cells or cell-based products.

• CyclosporineNarrower topic: Cyclosporine helps prevent the recipient's immune system from rejecting the graft.

• OrganRelated: Transplantation can restore function when an organ is irreversibly damaged.

• Reconstructive surgeryCompared with: Transplantation replaces whole organs, while reconstruction usually repairs or reshapes body structures.

• Soul (spirituality)Related: Questions about the relation between personal identity and the body can arise in debates about transplantation.

• Dimethyl sulfoxideRelated: DMSO has been studied in preservation solutions, though it is not a universal organ-storage method.

• History of surgeryBroader topic: Transplantation became feasible through advances in operative technique and immunology.

• TacrolimusNarrower topic: Tacrolimus is widely used to reduce immune-mediated rejection of transplanted organs.

• Antibiotic eraRelated: Antibiotics help control infections during the intense immunosuppression required after transplantation.

• Somatic cellRelated: Transplanted organs contain somatic cells that can trigger immune rejection.

• Alexis CarrelRelated: Reliable vessel connections are essential for restoring blood supply to a transplanted organ.

• SirolimusNarrower topic: Sirolimus helps prevent immune rejection of transplanted organs.

• Immunosuppressive drugRelated: Long-term immunosuppression helps prevent the recipient's immune system from attacking a graft.

• MethylprednisoloneRelated: Methylprednisolone can be used in transplant immunosuppression and rejection treatment.

• Peter MedawarNarrower topic: Understanding immune tolerance helped establish the scientific foundations of transplant medicine.

• PrednisoloneRelated: Prednisolone can help prevent or treat immune rejection of transplanted organs.

• Thomas StarzlNarrower topic: Starzl’s career helped transform transplantation from experimental surgery into clinical treatment.

• Artificial organCompared with: Transplantation replaces an organ with biological tissue rather than a manufactured substitute.

• Baruj BenacerrafRelated: Understanding histocompatibility made genetic matching central to reducing transplant rejection.

• Blood typeRelated: ABO compatibility can affect transplant eligibility and rejection risk.

• Sanctity of lifeRelated: Donation and allocation raise questions about protecting donors while saving recipients.

• Christiaan BarnardNarrower topic: Heart transplantation applies transplant principles to an organ whose function cannot be paused.

• Gertrude B. ElionRelated: Azathioprine helped make long-term control of transplant rejection possible.

• Macfarlane BurnetRelated: Burnet’s tolerance framework helped explain why grafts may be accepted or rejected.

• SurgeonRelated: Transplantation depends on surgeons to remove and implant organs while coordinating with broader medical teams.

• Alexander BelyaevRelated: His fiction imagined radical surgery decades before many transplant procedures became feasible.