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I don't think I understand. If they could rehabilitate unsuitable donor organs and didn't have to worry about rejection, there wouldn't be a shortage. Isn't tha

I don't think I understand. If they could rehabilitate unsuitable donor organs and didn't have to worry about rejection, there wouldn't be a shortage. Isn't that the end game?

reasonattlm 11y ago
There would still be a great shortage. The supply of donor organs is tiny.
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- astazangasta 11y ago
  You could use a much broader range of donor organs, and not having to worry about matching would vastly increase the number of usable donations.
- jack9 11y ago
  No shortage is more like it. Intact cadaverous hearts are plentiful by comparison to awaiting heart transplant patients. Most heart failures are immediate and fatal, but people who have progressive failure are relatively rare. Transplant patients would conceivably be donors for the program (since most heart damage is soft tissue failure).