Why can’t certain organs such as the pancreas or brain be transplanted? (what other organs cannot be transplanted?)

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Why can’t certain organs such as the pancreas or brain be transplanted? (what other organs cannot be transplanted?)

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Depends on the connections that have to be made. We do liver, kidney, bowel, pancreatic, lung, heart, and corneal transplants at my institution. Most of them require connecting some vessels (arteries and veins) and some other “tubes” such as in a lung or pancreatic transplant. Nerves are a whole different story and are not necessarily something we know how to surgically re-connect well.