Transplantation refers to a technology in which cells, tissues or organs from one individual are introduced into the body or a part of another individual through surgery or other methods to replace the original function that has lost its function.

Depending on the imported graft, it is divided into cell, tissue and organ transplantation.

Since organ transplant patients have preoperative organ dysfunction and large surgical trauma, they require routine post-operative immunosuppressive drug treatment. Infectious complications and surgical technique-related complications are prone to occur in the early postoperative period.

In recent years, with the improvement of surgical technology and perioperative treatment, the incidence of early postoperative complications and mortality have decreased significantly.

The prognosis of different organ transplants is different, and the prognosis of patients with liver transplantation and kidney transplantation is relatively good.

Kidney transplantation has the most significant efficacy among organ transplants, with a patient survival rate of over 97%.

The 1-year survival rate after liver transplantation is 80% to 90%, the 5-year survival rate is 70% to 80%, and the longest survival time can be more than 30 years.

China may become the world's largest organ transplant country: "Currently, our country has become the world's second largest organ transplant country. During the COVID-19 epidemic, organ donation and transplantation have been carried out efficiently and smoothly in our country, and have been highly praised by relevant experts in the international transplant community. "On October 11, 2020, the "Relay for Life Pioneers" entered Xinhua College of Sun Yat-sen University. Huang Jiefu, former Vice Minister of Health, Chairman of the China Human Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, and Chairman of the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation, said at the meeting , starting from January 1, 2015, citizen voluntary donation has become the only legal source of organ transplantation in my country.

In the year when the regulations were implemented, my country achieved 2,775 posthumous organ donations. Since then, the number of organ donations has increased by an average of 20% every year, reaching 6,302 cases in 2018.

So far, the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation’s “Giving and Receiving” organ donation volunteer network has registered 1.45 million volunteers.

“But compared with our country’s population of 1.4 billion, the concept of organ donation and education are far from enough.” Huang Jiefu said, “Organ donation is the relay of life and the continuation of life under the sun. We need to let more people know about it.