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What is the shelf life of donated organs?

I can only answer for cornea and eye donation.

The FDA does all oversight (no pun intended) of organ disposition.

The main organs - hearts, liver, pancreas, lungs etc are transplanted within hours. They are just not viable if they are not being perfused constantly.

The other tissues like bone, skin, tendons, etc. do not need to be transplanted immediately. But I am not sure on the regulations of when they need to be transplanted.

With eyes there are 4 tissues that can be recovered.

We recover whole eyes for research and education purposes. These usually go much faster, but we can hold them up to a year.


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Conjunctiva can also be recovered. Conjunctiva is a clear covering over most of the eye, it is what gets irritated when you have pink eye. I have been working as a recovery tech for 5 years, and our office has not had a request for “conj” in all that time. I believe it is mostly used for research, but I could be wrong.

Sclera is the white area of your eye. It is fairly thick and flexible. If you have ever touched a reptile egg, that is what it reminds me of. We recover sclera for transplant. They use it for several things, but mainly to patch punctures. Similar to if you pop the inner tube of your bike and repair it. Sclera can also be used to repair ear drums. We can hold onto this for up to a year.

The main thing we recover is corneas. In the USA we must transplant these within 7 days of recovery. (Recovery is usually within hours of death, but we can push it up to 20 hours after in needed.) Sometimes we have more corneas than we need for. Then they are shipped overseas and transplanted up to 14 days after recovery. There is no real different outcomes with the later transplant times, but the FDA in the USA made the rules.


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Did you know that scientists are able to recover some organs? What do you think about the idea of organ donation?

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23 Comments
hugseveryone
I love the idea of people helping others they don’t know. I personally am donating my whole body. Good luck!😃
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19.02.2020 10:05
Marian Spitzig
My husband was placed on the transplant list. Went through all the testing. Maybe 8-8 months later, as our kids were getting ready to be tested, they called my husband and told him on the phone that they were removing him from the list. Needless to say, this was one very upset, disappointed family, who have now buried a father and husband.
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03.02.2020 05:44
Linda Evers
My grandsons life was saved by a bone marrow transplant which was flown from Germany to the UK. I don't know how long it took but it was the most precious gift from a stranger.
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06.06.2019 05:58
Margaret Gibson
We donated our sons corneas and had a lovely letter from the recipient x
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25.02.2024 11:16
Judi Hanan
Marian, what did they say was the reason for taking him off? I am sorry for your loss.
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02.07.2022 04:49
Julie Allen
Chriss Crockford, Can't understand why more people don't, It's not like they are going to be using them.
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29.01.2022 02:24
Eleanore Lavery McCann
How is this telling me the shelf life of donated organs besides the eye???
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22.11.2021 12:58
John McLardie
Of even more use would have been the 'harvesting' limits on the removal of organs, etc., from recently deceased individuals who had given donor consent. For example, in the UK I understand that the liver should be removed within 2 hours of certification of death.
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05.03.2020 03:35
Toots66
Humberto Carrasco, yes. My gentleman friend had a double organ transplant. Kidney and Pancreas. Cured his trauma induced diabetes
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17.10.2019 04:39
Humberto Carrasco
VERY INTERESTING ISSUE!! I HAVE A QUESTION: CAN A PANCREAS BE TRANSPLANTED?
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08.07.2019 11:56
Ron Dichoso
The title is “shelf life of donated organs” yet the writer is not expert on organ transplant but not even more we’ll explain on corneas. On the other hand thank you for those organ donor- you help extended countless lives. Check: organdonationalliance.org.
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01.07.2019 10:35
Terry Lee Hammel
Interesting info.
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08.06.2019 07:47
Don Racette
Minerva Gomez Connelly EYE can hardly believe it!
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26.05.2019 05:36
Minerva Gomez Connelly
Very interesting...learning more info
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23.05.2019 11:13
jack patti go
I am an organ donor!
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22.05.2019 10:32

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