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Organ Transplantation Management

2005
Reports

Abstract

Organ transplantation is a widespread and effective technique to treat important diseases and can often make the difference between life and death of some patients. Given a donor, finding the best recipient for one of his organs means finding, in the shortest time possible, the patient in the waiting list that best represents the compromise between numerous constraints related to donor-recipient physical compatibility and logistical arrangements. Currently, this process is still done in a non-automated, non-coordinated way, often leading to a non-optimal choice of the eventual recipient. This project aims at easing the organ transplantation management by representing it into a multi-agent system and by completely delegating the operation of matchmaking to the agents in the system.

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2005
Reports

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/454fff11-691e-443d-bb09-ad921a8100c3

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Organ transplantation

Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location. Organs and/or tissues that are transplanted within the same person's body are called autografts. Transplants that are recently performed between two subjects of the same species are called allografts.

Kidney transplantation

Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ. Living-donor kidney transplants are further characterized as genetically related (living-related) or non-related (living-unrelated) transplants, depending on whether a biological relationship exists between the donor and recipient.

Xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation (xenos- from the Greek meaning "foreign" or strange), or heterologous transplant, is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another. Such cells, tissues or organs are called xenografts or xenotransplants. It is contrasted with allotransplantation (from other individual of same species), syngeneic transplantation or isotransplantation (grafts transplanted between two genetically identical individuals of the same species) and autotransplantation (from one part of the body to another in the same person).

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