Transplants are rare not only because of the lack of organ donors, but also because of their price.
The most expensive requests in medicine, without a doubt, are also considered transplants, which can cost more than a million dollars!
The price of organ transplants ranges from $400.000 for a kidney transplant to $1.4 million for a heart transplant.
In America, these costs are only part of the problem, because despite the health insurance system and donors, access to surgery is still limited.
More than 116.000 Americans are waiting for a transplant, and about 20 of them die every day while waiting for the operation.
The price of a spinal cord transplant is $892.700, lung $861.700, liver $812.500, and pancreas $347.000.
New advances in science will probably shorten the waiting time, as scientists are experimenting with implanting pig organs into humans, but all of this is still in the experimental phase, writes tg.
Some of them consider that such operations will be possible in two years.
The longest waiting period for kidney transplantation is 679 days, followed by pancreas 281 days and liver 329 days.
Patients wait 191 days for a heart transplant, and 185 days for a lung transplant.
(mk/BalkanWeb)
