Organ Donation and Transplant Recipient information and T-shirts

ORGAN DONATION T-SHIRTS
Organ donors save lives. Are you an organ donor? Do you know an organ donor?
TshirtManiacs sells products which promote organ donation. We know how important organ
transplant recipient. Check out our large section of Organ and Transplant related items. Our
goal is to promote organ donation by increasing awareness among read his the general
donated and more lives being saved.

Currently organs that can be transplanted are Liver, Pancreas, Kidneys, Retina, Heart, Lungs,
Stomach, and Small Intestine. There are also been experimental extremity transplants such as
hands.

Organ Donation and Transplant Recipient T-shirts

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donor, and recipient designs. Below are a sample of the designs that are offered. Check back often to see new designs. Click on any of the
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An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor
site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with
a working one from the donor site. Organ donors can be living or deceased. Organ transplants can be
categorized as "life-saving", while tissue transplants are "life-enhancing".

Allograft
The specific type of organ donation that we are promoting here at TshirtManiacs is called an allograft. An allograft is a transplanted organ or tissue from a genetically
non-identical member of the same species. Most human tissue and organ transplants are allografts. This however will result in the receiver of organs to take
immunosuppressive drugs to prevent their body's antibodies causing transplant rejection, destroying the new organ. This dramatically affects the entire immune
system making the body vulnerable to pathogens.

You have the power to save lives. From the simple blood donation to that end of life donation decision, you can
save other people. You can be someone's hero. Many die each year waitng on organ donations. You never
know when the next one who dies may be your friend, family member, or even yourself. Organ and tissue
transplants offer patients a new chance at healthy, productive, normal lives and return them to their families,
friends and communities. You have the power to change someone's world by being a donor. It's about living. It's
about Life. It's your decision. Wouldn't you want someone to save your life?

As of 12/1/2008 there are 100,580 peoople on the Waiting list for a transplant.

Between January and August 2008 only 18,659 Transplants took place.

There were only 9,490 Donors between January and August 2008.
Based on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) data

Below you will find several links to resources about organ and tissue donation.

This page and t-shirt designs were inspired by LEVI GOFF a transplant recipient, read his story. Our goal is to
promote organ donation by increasing awareness among the general population. It is our hope that we will
increase awareness, resulting in more organs being donated and more lives being saved.

Oragan Donation Links

Organ and Tissue Donation Initiative
Access to US Government Organ Donation/Transplantation Information.
www.organdonor.gov

Donate Life America
There are unique organ donation and transplantation issues that affect minorities.
www.donatelife.net

Organ donation
Organ donation is the removal of the tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the purpose ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation

Organ donation
Don't let these 10 myths confuse you - MayoClinic.com
Having trouble separating organ donation fact from fiction? Get the truth about organ donation.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/organ-donation/FL00077

Organ Donation, Tissue Donation, Organ Transplants
The Gift of a ...The Gift of a Lifetime is an educational documentary about organ donation, tissue donation and organ transplants in the United States.
www.organtransplants.org

Organ Donation
Every 16 minutes a new name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.
www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4697

United Network for Organ Sharing
Organ Donation and TransplantationUNOS oversees the national database of clinical transplant information and operates the computerized organ sharing system.
www.unos.org

LifeGiftGifts of Donation
Organ Donation Process · Tissue Donation Process · Transplantation · Myths and Truths · Frequently Asked Questions · Living Donation .
www.lifegift.org

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Many individuals have not thought about making a decision about organ and tissue donation. Some
people feel they are too old to become an organ donor or their medical history would rule them out as
a candidate for donation. Others believe their medical care may be compromised if a doctor knows
they are interested in donation.

These are common misconceptions about organ and tissue donation, and because of them many
people do not make a decision or document their wish to be an organ and tissue donation.

20 Facts About Organ Donation and Transplantation

The success rates of transplant surgery have improved remarkably, but growing shortages exist in the supply of organs and tissues available
for transplantation. Many Americans who need transplants cannot get them because of these shortages. The result: some of these people
die while waiting for that "Gift of Life."

Here are some facts everyone should know:

Every day, 16 to 17 people die while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ, such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung or bone
marrow.
Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 2,025 kidney patients, 1,347 liver patients, 458 heart patients and 361 lung
patients died in 2001 while waiting for life-saving organ transplants.
Nearly 10 percent of the patients currently waiting for liver transplants are young people under 18 years of age.
Acceptable organ donors can range in age from newborn to 65 years or more. People who are 65 years of age or older may be
acceptable donors, particularly of corneas, skin, bone and for total body donation.
An estimated 10,000 to 14,000 people who die each year meet the criteria for organ donation, but less than half of that number
become actual organ donors.
Vital organs may be recovered and transported thousands of miles to a transplant center for transplantation. This is due, in part, to
advances in preservation techniques. Following are the approximate preservation times for a variety of organs and tissues.
Donor organs are matched to waiting recipients by a national computer registry, called the National Organ Procurement and
Transplantation Network (OPTN). This computer registry is operated by an organization known as the United Network for Organ
Sharing (UNOS), which is located in Richmond, Virginia.
All hospitals are required by law to have a "Required Referral" system in place. Under this system, the hospital must notify the local
Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) of all patient deaths. If the OPO determines that organ and/or tissue donation is appropriate in
a particular case, they will have a representative contact the deceased patient’s family to offer them the option of donating their loved
one’s organs and tissues.
By signing a Uniform Donor Card, an individual indicates his or her wish to be a donor. However, at the time of death, the person's next-
of-kin will still be asked to sign a consent form for donation. It is important for people who wish to be organ and tissue donors to tell
their family about this decision so that their wishes will be honored at the time of death. It is estimated that about 35 percent of potential
donors never become donors because family members refuse to give consent.
Tissue donation can enhance the lives of more than 50 people. Donated heart valves, bone, skin, corneas and connective tissues can
be used in vital medical procedures such as heart valve replacements, limb reconstruction following tumor surgery, hip and knee joint
reconstruction and in correcting curvature of the spine.
In 2000, a total of 11,650 organ donors were recovered in the U.S. Of these, 5,985 were cadaveric donors, which represented a small
increase over the total of 5,824 in 1999. Living donors increased from 4,779 in 1999 to 5,665 in 2000.
Donor organs and tissues are removed surgically, and the donor’s body is closed, as in any surgery. There are no outward signs of
organ donation and open casket funerals are still possible.
Acceptable organ donors are those who are “brain dead” (whose brain function has ceased permanently) but whose heart and lungs
continue to function with the use of ventilators. Brain dead is a legal definition of death.
Organ transplant recipients are selected on the basis of medical urgency, as well as compatibility of body size and blood
chemistries, and not race, sex or creed.
Advances in surgical technique and organ preservation and the development of more effective drugs to prevent rejection have
improved the success rates of all types of organ and tissue transplants.
About 88.3 percent of the kidneys transplanted from cadavers (persons who died recently) are still functioning well at one year after
surgery. The results are even better for kidneys transplanted from living donors. One year after surgery, 94 percent of these kidneys
were still functioning well.
Of the single kidney transplants performed in 2000, 5,293 were from living donors and the rest were from cadaveric donors. In addition,
911 kidneys were transplanted in combination with pancreas transplants.
Over 1,000 bone marrow transplants were performed in the U.S. in 1999. Marrow is collected from a pelvic bone using a special
needle while the volunteer donor is under anesthesia. The majority of bone marrow transplants are done for leukemia.
The number of Americans on waiting lists for corneas averages as high as 5,000 at any given time. Corneal transplantation results in
improved vision in nearly 95 percent of those who undergo the procedure because of corneal disorders. Corneas are acceptable for
donation regardless of abnormalities in vision.
Virtually all religious denominations approve of organ and tissue donation as representing the highest humanitarian ideals and the
ultimate charitable act.

Adapted From The Congressional Kidney Caucus

Data Sources:
American Association of Tissue Banks
Eye Bank Association of America
National Marrow Donor Program
National Kidney Foundation, Inc.
UNOS Scientific Registry

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