What determines whether someone is a “match” for organ donation?
In: Biology
The organ donor foundation (I don’t remember exactly what it’s called) has criteria that an organ donor needs to meet to qualify to even be a donor.
Additionally, the blood types of the people also need to match, and the donor has to be healthy to be able to give their organ (unless they’re dead, in which case the cause of death would need to be something that wouldn’t transfer to the one receiving the organ).
I’m sure other stuff factors in too, I’m not an actual doctor this is just what I know from doing my own research and being in science classes.
Edit for some minor spelling/formatting errors
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