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| MUSC Health Medical Center | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| Coordinates | 32°47′10″N79°56′52″W / 32.78611°N 79.94778°W Coordinates: 32°47′10″N79°56′52″W / 32.78611°N 79.94778°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public |
| Hospital type | General and Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Medical University of South Carolina |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | I |
| Beds | 865 Licensed Beds [1] |
| History | |
| Founded | 1850 as Roper Hospital 1955 as Medical College of South Carolina Hospital 1985 as MUSC Medical Center |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.muschealth.org |
The MUSC Health Medical Center is a health science and academic center based in South Carolina. It has a 700-bed medical center (MUSC Health) and six colleges that train approximately 2600 health care professionals per year.
South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern United States and the easternmost of the Deep South. It is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the southwest by Georgia across the Savannah River.
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In 1946 the South Carolina General Assembly passed a $4 million bill to construct a new teaching hospital that was brought under the control of the Medical College of South Carolina. Construction began in 1951 and the Medical College of South Carolina Hospital was completed and dedicated on May 10, 1955 and opened its doors to its first patients on September 26, 1955. It was later renamed Medical University of South Carolina Hospital and has now been officially shortened to simply MUSC Health Medical Center.
The South Carolina General Assembly, also called the South Carolina Legislature, is the state legislature of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The legislature is bicameral and consists of the lower South Carolina House of Representatives and the upper South Carolina Senate. Altogether, the General Assembly consists of 170 members. The legislature convenes at the State House in Columbia.
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is a public medical school in Charleston, South Carolina. It opened in 1824 as a small private college aimed at training physicians. It is one of the oldest continually operating schools of medicine in the United States and the oldest in the Deep South. The school's main building was designed by Charleston architect Albert W. Todd.
Transplant Center ranked as one of the top ten organ transplantation centers in the nation.[ citation needed ] The MUSC Health Transplant Center is supported by the only HLA Laboratory in South Carolina. MUSC Health Medical Center is a Level I Trauma Center and is the regional referral center for the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location. Organs and/or tissues that are transplanted within the same person's body are called autografts. Transplants that are recently performed between two subjects of the same species are called allografts. Allografts can either be from a living or cadaveric source.
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system or complex is a gene complex encoding the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins in humans. These cell-surface proteins are responsible for the regulation of the immune system in humans. The HLA gene complex resides on a 3 Mbp stretch within chromosome 6p21. HLA genes are highly polymorphic, which means that they have many different alleles, allowing them to fine-tune the adaptive immune system. The proteins encoded by certain genes are also known as antigens, as a result of their historic discovery as factors in organ transplants. Different classes have different functions:
