Maddys

Chronic diseases often lead to catastrophic damage to vital organs. This damage is usually irreversible and leads to lifetime dependency on medicines. Under such severe conditions, transplants remain the mainstay for restoration of healthy life. Globally, there has been a surge in tissue transplant with advances in medical biotechnology. Tissue transplantation and services market has seen an increased demand especially from high income countries. Higher prevalence of diseases such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, renal diseases and Alzheimer’s disease have post a threat of irreversible tissue damage to a large population globally. According to an article published in the Journal of Diabetes Care, in 2010, prevalence of diabetes related end stage renal disease escalated from 17,727 in 1990 to 48,215 in 2006 in the U.S. Large percentage of cancer patients need to undergo bone marrow transplant. Bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation procedures are e...