Transplant Surgery

Transplant surgery is a type of surgery that pertains to the tranfer of one person's organs to the other. Excepting the liver and kidneys, more organ donors are brain-dead. Transplant patients often have to wait months or even years for a transplant to come their way by putting their name on a list. In Grey's Anatomy, the fictionalized U.N.O.S. coordinates transplant patients and donors.

Requirements
U.N.O.S. works on a point system, depending on how badly a patient is deteriorating. If the points are tied, as with Denny Duquette, it goes to the patient entered first into U.N.O.S.

For a patient and donor to be a match, they need to have the same blood type, and it is best if the age is somewhat close and the size of the organ fits into the patient's body. However, adult livers can be transplanted into a baby, as demonstrated by Alex Karev and Robert Stark.

Notable Transplant Patients

 * Denny Duquette, Jr. recieved a heart.
 * Thatcher Grey received a liver from Meredith Grey.
 * Bailey performed a 6-donor, 6-patient kidney transplant domino surgery.