Posted on 07/29/2022 5:02:01 PM PDT by algore
Doctors in New York City have performed the first ever heart transplant from a person who is HIV positive.
An unnamed woman in her 60s who was suffering from advanced heart failure received both a heart and kidney transplant from the same HIV-positive donor in spring, doctors at Montefiore Health in the Bronx, New York City, announced this week. The woman also had HIV herself.
Organ transplants from HIV positive donors had been banned in the U.S. until 2013. Now, they are allowed under the context of research, finding how a body will respond to the new organs.
With over 100,000 Americans waiting for a new organ - and more than a dozen people on that list dying each day - doctors are hopeful that even slightly expanding the pool of donors will allow for more lives to be saved. Matching HIV positive patients to other HIV positive donors could also allow for a more efficient use of other resources.
'This is something that has not been done before. It is part of a broader effort to use organs that have historically not been used,' Dr David Klassen, chief medical officer of the United Network for Organ Sharing told DailyMail.com.
The demand for new organs will always exceed available supply across the world. Official data shows 106,023 Americans waiting for a organ donation as of Friday afternoon.
For comparison, only around 40,000 transplants are performed every year. This leads to many people dying while awaiting a new organ - and the list of potential recipients is regularly growing as well.
Heart transplants in particular can be hard to find. Recipients must hope an eligible donor emerges whose cause of death did not damage their heart
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No I didn’t. They both have HIV.
Oh!
Just. No.
Donor AND recipient were HIV positive - HIV to HIV ..... I don’t have a problem with that.
and it’ been COMPLETELY exsanguinatedan and ultra flushed right???
still no...
“I’ve never heard the 100k figure, “
Read the article ...
That's not even a rounding error, and certainly not enough to relieve a shortage of hearts to transplant.
Yes and the recipient was also HIV positive.
Wow…
They tossed that out there? It’s even more absurd that number will resolve a shortage.
” It’s even more absurd that number will resolve a shortage.”
https://www.k5learning.com/reading/reading-comprehension
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You are addressing a different group than I was.
I was addressing the approximate percentage of homosexuals to the populace. It’s around 2%. Then we’re taking a fraction of that 2%, who are HIV positive.
Some additional lives will be saved and that is good, but it can’t make a significant impact on the over all shortage.
I thought the title was misleading.
“You are addressing a different group than I was.”
Did you go to the link I gave you?
My post specifically referred to the 98% you mentioned in your post, not the 2%.
Great movie. In my opinion, Mel Brooks’ best.
If that 100,000 figure comes from the entire populace, how many organs will be available from a 2% portion of the populace? Of that two percent people have to die with no damage to the heart, decreasing the number even further.
I’d reference this as the ability to extrapolate meaning from the numbers, not comprehension skills:
“…hope breakthrough will help tame America’s massive shortage of heart donations”
That’s about like saying 200 hamburgers will help end massive hunger in the the U. S.
I had a quibble with the way this was framed in the headline.
I think I can agree with that. I also think it’s been enough years since I’ve seen it that I could watch it again.
Teri Garr was perfect.
I think my last post to you should frame it about right.
A splinter group from the two percent, simply can not make any meaningful impact on reducing the shortage from the 98% of the populace.
Some more lives will be saved. That’s good.
I always thought so ... quite apart from her role in Young Frankenstein.
transplant patients cost a bundle for the govt and insurances and not just the operation itself, but the follow up with multiple meds....and then of course, the big chance that due to the immune suppression meds the patient actually gets sick with something else....
so this case sounds very very odd....
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