Considerations relating to xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation is a Greek phrase and is referred to the process in which an organ or living cell is transplanted from an animal into the human body.The reasons for transmission of an organ from an animal to a human include: Limitation of transplantable human organs, Long term waiting list to receive organ transplants, irreversible damages or death due to postponement of receiving transplant organs or not receiving it and illimitable animal organs. The reasons for rejection of animal-human transmission include: The risk of possible transmission of unknown diseases from animals to human and benign lack of controlling the patients to avoid transferring the disease to other people, rejection of patients by the community, possibility of psychological problems in patient who has animal organs in his/her body and as result decreasing patients’ quality of life and religious beliefs of purity and impurity of some animals.Therefore, inadvertency and inattention to ethical, legal and social consequences as a result of xenotransplantation may leave irrecoverable damages.