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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“I always thought so ... quite apart from her role in Young Frankenstein.”
So tragic what happened to her.
“A splinter group from the two percent, simply can not make any meaningful impact on reducing the shortage from the 98% of the populace.”
AGAIN! IT NOT 98%! IT IS A SHORTAGE OF 0.02% OF THE POPULATION!
“That’s about like saying 200 hamburgers will help end massive hunger in the the U. S.”
GEEZ! YOUR POSITION IS THAT THE ENTIRE POPULATION NEEDS A NEW HEART!
ROTFLMAO
“I was addressing the approximate percentage of homosexuals to the populace. It’s around 2%.”
That is about 7,000,000 people. The transplant shortage is 60,000.
THE U.S. DEATH RATE IS 9.7 PER 1000 SO WE CAN EXPECT AT LEAST 70,000 homosexuals to DIE EACH YEAR.
Think about it.
If it were that simple, there would be no shortage.
Think how many people die out of the 98% then.
There are other factors.
The donor has to match. I’m certain there are other issues also.
2% of the populace is not going to address the entire shortfall for the 98%,
If the 98% can’t even do it themselves.
I appreciate your line of reasoning. Take care.
I didn’t know anything had happened to her so I had to look it up.
Quite tragic but she seems to have faced it with great courage.
“I didn’t know anything had happened to her so I had to look it up. Quite tragic but she seems to have faced it with great courage.”
She is a courageous lady. As was Annette Funicello.
The shortage of hearts for medical donations is due to too many leftist Democrats not having a heart!
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