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Doctors Transplant Same Kidney Twice In Two Weeks
kkleiner writes "Twenty-seven-year-old Ray Fearing suffered from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a common type of kidney disease, and needed a new kidney. His 24-year-old sister, Cera Fearing, wanted to give him hers. The transplanted kidney immediately began to grow diseased, so doctors removed it. But then something happened that, according to the doctor who performed the procedure, had never been done before. The unhealthy kidney was removed from Ray, and replanted into another patient, and the kidney became healthy and has remained in this second patient ever since."
its Ray "Fearing" Kidney.
We'll make it fit SOMEPLACE!
Yeah.. not the attitude i want a surgeon to have... What happens when the person who ended up with it gets a new disease...
A new low point in health care.
Doctor: We don't have any kidney's available but we have this diseased and rejected kidney in the fridge. Intrested? Patient: Umm... F*** it. Dieing anyway right? Throw it in!
Err, well, except for his dad being dead. And him being dead, too, I suppose.
This story was on CNN.com a few days ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/25/health/kidney-transplanted-twice/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12
They seem to have cleaned out the comment though. I remember looking at the story 2 days ago and seeing over 400 comments -- virtually all about how hot Ms. Fearing is. Now there are only 96. Still all about how hot Ms. Fearing is.
The article doesn't give much detail.
I assume this is part of a clinical trial being done. Otherwise it would seem odd logically or ethically to do this.
You can live without a kidney(ies) but a transplant is a major surgery with real risks. Judging by the talk about the theory of the blood born cause it must have been a clinical trial.
If someone here is a surgeon maybe they could explain the ethics involved when approving this type of novel operation?
get one patient to reject the kidney, and then, while the it's still depressed, another patient gets the kidney on the rebound.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
Couldn't they 3D print a better kidney? Or private space grow one in orbit or something? I mean a vacuum in free-fall must be very useful.
His sister is hot.
one day, the world will not be ruled by god fearing, pro lifers who are slowing the efforts of ethical science in utilising stem cell research so we can 'grow our own organs'.
I had some Ram that did that once. Placed it in one PC and I had an unstable system constantly crashing.
take it out and put it in another box. Both machines running perfectly.
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Based on the cnn comments... or at least, the removed ones...
The Meaning of Life Part V: Live Organ Donor Transpants
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
In USA today, she's 21. In Singularity Hub she's 24. Yeah, that's what I get for RT2FAs.
On a side note, the doctors have now noticed that the X ray photo was the wrong way around.
And on a more serious note, I hope that they try such things in future rather than letting an organ go to waste, if there's one about to be removed.
The girl that donated the kidney is SMOKING hot.
It's obvious that Ray is cursed.
Kidney once, shame on you. Kidney twice, shame on me.
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
But under the older care HE will be black listed with a pre existing condition but it's not that bad jail / prison care does not have pre existing conditions
I still don't understand why not everybody is considered as donor.
In Luxembourg, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czechoslovakia and Hungary (Wikipedia page only lists European countries) you have to actively exclude yourself.
Just goes to show that human-parts package management should be treated like a BSD Ports or Gentoo Portage installation; you need to take the entire system into consideration when looking at changes.
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You no like the kidney??
No kidney for you!
Why didn't the girl get the kidney back? I can understand her willing to give it up for her brother, but not for some random person.
Gross.
His 24-year-old sister, Cera Fearing, wanted to give him hers.
- she wanted to give him hers, well, if they could transplant it into another patient, then she should be suing the shit out of them for not transplanting it BACK INTO HER.
You can't handle the truth.
Did the 2nd recipient get it at a discount?
Better known as 318230.
I'd really appreciate having this as an external device even if it cost $100 more.
I read about external pciexpress years ago, is it still happening?
If I was going to get a kidney, it'd better be from myself.
This has been confirmed.
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&q=Cera+Fearing
giggity
4 day old receives transplant and new life on Slashdot.
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That may be true for other organs, but not kidneys. And this is for good reason: With, say, a heart or lung or liver, you either get one or you die in fairly short order. But we have an acceptable substitute for a kidney: Dialysis. So, issues of compatibility and availability aside, kidneys are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis,
What this translates to in practice is that if you're blood type O, expect a *long* wait. This is mostly because type Os can only get a type O kidney, meaning about 60% of the kidneys that show up aren't going to be compatible. (This actually isn't true - there's a therapy that allows transplants against type - but since it requires extensive preparation in advance it isn't really practical for cadaveric transplants.) It, OTOH, you're type AB, your wait time is likely to be much less, mostly because any kidney that shows up will work for you.
Actually, end stage renal disease (ESRD) including both dialysis and transplants, is covered by Medicare regardless of age. The only other condition that enjoys this status is amyotrophic lateral schlerosis (ALS). I have no idea why ALS is handled this way, especially since there are several similar motor neurone diseases that aren't covered, but in the case of ESRD, it's because when dialysis was first developed it was extremely expensive and insurance refused to cover it. The result was few dialysis machines were built and the costs remained very high. ESRD was and is very common, so laws were passed to extend medicare to cover it. (And the costs did drop, but it's still expensive.) And when transplants became available, the coverage was extended again to cover that.
There is, however, a little gotcha in all this. The drugs needed to prevent rejection of a transplant are also expensive. And once you have a transplant, you don't have ESRD any more, so your Medicare coverage ends. This was addressed by extending the coverage for 18 months, which I guess is how long transplants used to last. But these days the average is more like 9 years. So what happens is someone gets a transplant that's paid for by Medicare, their meds are paid for for 18 months, then the coverage stops, they can't afford the meds and the transplant stops working. So they go back into ESRD and need dialysis, at which point they're covered again.
This is absolutely insane no matter how you look at it, since the meds are typically around $10K/year whereas dialysis is closer to $50K/year. So not only do you waste a precious organ, it ends up costing more.
The good news is that one of the provision of the AHA that goes into effect in 2014 is to extend medicare to cover the meds indefinitely.
sounds like Dr House was there.
no, I don't have a sig
Thought they returned it to the sister.
Wow, considering this was the "first time" for this to happen, the patient must have been very desperate.
"We have a kidney available, however it is 3rd hand, and currently diseased, and no one has ever transplanted a diseased kidney and have it get better on its own. Still want it? Yes? Really?"
Think about it: Cadaveric transplants often come from people who were in an accident. The time available to match the organ in such cases is not going to significantly different than if you grabbed someone off the street intending to steal their organs.
When there's plenty of time, as in the case of altruistic donations, yes, full match testing is performed. But when there's not, it isn't, and it usually works.
In any case, these days not only are transplants done with little or no MHC match (mine was only 2 out of 6), but they are even done against blood type. The process for that is fairly involved, making it impractical to do if you're going to transplant a stolen organ. That said, the odds are over 40% that a person grabbed at random in the US is going to be type O, and type O organs are blood type compatible with everyone.