Transplants and Cystic Fibrosis
The success rate of lung transplantation for CF patients is encouraging but ike any other major surgery, transplants carry considerable risks and a transplant is appropriate only for a patient who is severely ill and has tried all other forms of conventional treatment. To these patients, lung transplantation offers a better quality of life.
Transplantation doesn't remove all concern - the risk of rejection or infection still remains.
Anyone considering transplantation should consult doctors or counsellors at a local CF clinic. For more information about transplantation, you can download the CF Trust's factsheet from our publications library. You can read about a research project in transplantation and more about what we are doing to increase donations.
Give the gift of life. Join the NHS Organ Donor Register.
Organ Donor Line 0300 123 23 23
Right now more than 8,000 people in the UK need an organ transplant that could save or improve their life, but each year around 400 people die while waiting for a transplant. If you want to help someone live after your death, sign up to the register now.
Find out more from NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS Choices and Live Life Then Give Life.
A moving new book of letters written from transplant patients to their donors and donor relatives has been launched to show the positive side of organ donation and encourage more people to sign up to the organ register. Thank you for life is published by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) for NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) with support from the Department of Health and highlights the long-standing gratitude felt by those who receive donated organs.
Proceeds from sales of the book will be used to promote organ registration. For further information, please click here.
