TLDR: No, as transplanting an organ have drawbacks. Replacing a functional organ is just asking for trouble
TL;DR: No, as transplanting an organ have drawbacks. Replacing a functional organ is just asking for trouble
Transplant can fail:
Transplants can fail:
Everyone talks about the success rates of kidney transplants. Rarely do we talk about what happens when transplants fail. People will quote the official statistics that 97% of kidney transplants are working at the end of a month; 93% are working at the end of a year; and 83% are working at the end of 3 years https://www.kidney.org/transplantation/transaction/TC/summer09/TCsm09_TransplantFails
Those are just some numbers about current successuccess rate of kidney transplanttransplants. 83% of successuccess rate is very good for thosthose who would die without transplant. But they are just disastrous if the people were healthy.
Complications
Complications
A transplant can have a lot of complications. Just for a heart tranplanttransplant, you can get:
- Organ Rejection
- Infections
- Graft Coronary Artery Disease
- High Blood Pressure/Hypertension
- Diabetes
No long term support
No long term support
hereHere is an abstract about long-term outcome following heart transplantation. It's not dramatic in current world, as people with heart problem are in the majority of cases quite old. But it's problematic for transplantation on younger folks
Money cost
Money cost
Another problem is the cost of a transplantation. A surgery operation cost a lot. An artificial organ even more. Replacing every organ of every human would be just way beyond budget accorded to health organization. ANdAnd this money could be spent way better on other fields. Organ failure is just one way to die. They are plenty others way to die, either enverinomentalenvironmental (accidents for example), or other diseases (cancer, ischemic stroke, diabetes...)