This document provides an overview of organ transplantation, including:
- The types of organs and tissues that can be transplanted, such as hearts, kidneys, lungs, and skin.
- The history of transplantation, including milestones like the first successful cornea transplant in 1905 and kidney transplant in 1954.
- The different types of transplants including living donor, deceased donor, autograft, allograft, isograft, xenograft, split transplants, and domino transplants.
- Statistics on donation, such as the top 10 countries by economy of transplantation and that over 78,000 people in the US are waiting for organ transplants.