About organ donation without myths: 5 questions to the MCSC expert

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August 3 is World Organ Donation Day. Transplantation for many patients with serious illnesses becomes the only chance to save their lives. But the development of this area is impossible without organ donation — a topic around which there are still many questions and myths.

On this day, we talked with Ruslan Bogdanovich Alikhanov, Head of the Human Organ and/or Tissue Transplantation Department of the A.S. Loginov MCSC, MD.

In the new video, the MCSC expert answers important questions about donation and modern transplantology:

  • What is post-mortem donation and why is it so important?
  • Is it true that one donor can save several lives?
  • What are the most common myths about organ donation?
  • What types of donation exist today?
  • Why are there not enough donor organs and what technologies are the future of transplantology?

The answers to these questions are in our video.

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GBUZ Moscow Clinical Scientific Center named after Loginov MHD