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NYC Doctors perform first ever heart transplant from an HIV-positive donor - hope breakthrough will help tame America's massive shortage of heart donations
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Posted on 07/29/2022 5:02:01 PM PDT by algore
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To: Beowulf9
According to the article the recipient was also HIV positive.
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posted on
07/29/2022 5:52:05 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
To: algore
There is always a demand for organ transplants. I guess if you are days from death, taking an HIV positive organ that may allow you to live for several more years doesn’t sound that bad.
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posted on
07/29/2022 5:52:12 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
To: dfwgator
To: Zhang Fei
Days to live or years? Your choice.
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posted on
07/29/2022 5:55:18 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
To: TexasGator
I’ve never heard the 100k figure, so it was a little more
than poor math.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:01:18 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
To: dfwgator
Especially those by Judy Garland.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:02:28 PM PDT
by
quilterdebbie
(We will endeavor to persevere!)
To: mykroar
Do you have HIV? You must because you believe you would get an HIV heart. I’m sorry you slept with too many people and caught AIDS. Very sad and sorry for you.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:04:57 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
To: Beowulf9
the recipient also has aids
To: algore
Do a heart transplant with an HIV positive heart, and then give the patient powerful immune suppressing drugs to prevent rejection.
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:07:51 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
To: algore
Pts on hiv meds have higher than normal incidence of heart disease...so not a surprise. Most likely the hiv pos donor had heart disease and kidney disease(hiv infects kidney nephrons) so recipient might have gotten a less than stellar set of organs. I hope the donor isn’t giving the recep. a hiv virus which is resistant to the hiv meds recipient is taking.
All in all...a crappy way to spend ones life.... hope the recipient does well.
hey, just noticed...I didn’t have to use a pronoun to describe the events.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:07:52 PM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: RedMonqey
READ THE DAMN ARTICLE!!!!!!! So embarrassing how clearly so many are eithet last or illiterate.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:07:57 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:08:51 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
To: algore
I’m a queer
I’m a queer
Kill me and take my heart.
See, you homophobes, the queers are a benefit to society.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:09:58 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
To: dfwgator
The recipient will get a sudden liking for show tunes.
A fairly young woman (pregnancy/childbirth wrecked her heart)I work with got a heart transplant from a 16-year-old boy killed in a car crash. I kid her about her urges to spit and scratch.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:10:06 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: metmom
Your lack of reading skills for one.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:10:50 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
To: Beowulf9
Oh hell yes. Since they are too. Ugh!!!!!
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:11:37 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
To: RedMonqey
If the recipient is taking meds that suppress hiv replication...the immune system can probably cope. But if resistance by hiv occurs, immune system will be severely challenged. Of course, assuming a competent immune system., the antirejection drugs will suppress it....pt. will be more susceptible to infections, cancer...
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:13:49 PM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: algore
The patient is in her 60’s? HIV patients have accelerated aging because of HIV. I assume they die 14 years early. Average age of death is 74. Hmmm.
To look up articles that explain HIV patients’ accelerated aging, check keywords hivaging and hivacceleratedaging.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:15:45 PM PDT
by
NetAddicted
(Just looking)
In unrelated news a mysterious outbreak of monkey buttpox has occurred in populations of heart patients
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:16:35 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
To: napscoordinator
So how is that any different from giving an HIV positive patient powerful immune suppressing drugs?
It’s irrelevant whether the patient gets the HIV from the donated organ or already has it.
You missed the point.
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posted on
07/29/2022 6:16:43 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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