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Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
Section II Theme Reading
Read and Discuss “ Organ and Tissue Transplants”, focusing on the following questions.
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
7. What do we call the person who receives the tissue or organ? The recipient. ________________________________________ 8. What same proteins are involved in a successful transplant? HLA antigens. _______________________________________
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
6. Which organ among the internal organs has the capacity to regenerate? What does this capacity mean to both the surgeon and the patient? 7. What are some of the common tissue transplants? 8. Why do bone marrow transplants require a closer matching of donor and recipient than other types of transplants? 9. What are sclera transplants are used for? 10. What is meant by autografts?
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
C. Listen to a passage “ The Solution to the Problems Facing Organ Transplants”
and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
twice. While listening, you are to give a short answer to each of the following questions in no more than eight words.
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
_T_ 5. Denny adopted the donor’s immune system and blood type after the transplant. _F_ 6. Denny did as her doctors had exபைடு நூலகம்ected of her. _T_ 7. The doctors have been trying to get the body to stop rejecting the donated organs. _F_ 8. The doctors have unlocked the astonishing secret of Denny’s case.
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
_F_ 1. What happened to Denny was nothing but ordinary. _F_ 2. Denny was 6 years old when she had a liver transplant surgery. _F_ 3. Denny is an American girl living in California. _T_ 4. Denny’s routine surgery is now a miracle.
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
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Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
3. The solution to the problems facing organ transplantation __________. A. can be found by increasing eligible donors B. can also be found on the demand side A. cannot be reached with supply-side strategies D. cannot rely only on organ procurement organizations
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
4. What is the function of the drug cyclosporine discovered by a Swiss scientist in 1972? _____________________________________ To stop the body from rejecting new tissues. 5. When was the first successful heart transplant performed? ___________________________________ In 1967. 6. What are other tissues involved in transplants besides blood? Skin, bone marrow, blood vessels and corneas. ________________________________________
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
2. The significant attempts over the past three years in the U.S. have focused on _________. A. improving the numbers of organ donors B. improving the rate of successful medical transplants C. making breakthrough in successful organ transplantation D. raising awareness about the importance of transplantation
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
4. To solve the problems facing organ transplantation, it is also important for ______. A. organ failure patients to find more solid organs B. the general public to take more preventive measures C. National Institutes of Health to conduct more researches D. Health and Human Services to reverse its stand on stem cells
1. When was the first transplant operation carried out? In 1823. ________________________________________ 2. Why, according to a German scientist, was there a rejection of tissue transplants? ________________________________________ The body’s defense system attacked the foreign ____________ tissue. 3. What did a French doctor discover in 1958? A system for tissue matching. _______________________________________
Chapter 8
The Progress Achieved in Medical Transplantation
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
Section I. Asking, listening and watching
B. Listen to a passage “ History of Medical Transplantation ”
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
1. What is medical transplantation? 2. In which year was the first successful organ transplant carried out? What organ was transplanted? And who performed it? 3. What is the kidney’s function? What happens if the kidney fails to function? 4. Why are heart transplants the most dramatic of all organ transplants? 5. In which year was the first successful heart transplant conducted? And who performed it?
1. C 2. A 3. B 4. D
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D. Watch a video clip
“ A Miracle Liver Transplant ” twice and decide whether each of the following statements is true (T) or false (F).
Chapter 8 The Progress of Medical Transplantation
1. The obvious challenge over the past 15 years is that _________. A. no non-living patients donated their organs B. eligible organ donors are mostly dead patients C. significant portions of organ donors are ineligible D. the number of organs donated has increased little