Posted on 10/05/2025 10:18:08 AM PDT by DoodleBob
An American man dying of heart failure received the heart of a Canadian man with ALS who chose a medically assisted death in what is being described as a landmark case of a heart transplant following euthanasia.
Organs have been donated after MAID before, involving liver, kidney or lung transplants.
“Here we report the first case of a successful cardiac transplantation after MAID,” a team of doctors from The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and The Ottawa Hospital report in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
The case involved a 59-year-old man with rapidly worsening heart failure who wasn’t expected to survive more than a month without a new heart.
Ten days after his status on a transplant waitlist was upgraded, “a suitable donor was identified: a 38-year-old male with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) who was to receive MAID and wished to donate his organs,” the team reported.
“Provision of MAID and death determination occurred in keeping with Canadian standards,” they said.
With organ donation after MAID, life-ending drugs usually must be administered in a hospital near an operating room because organs are recovered immediately after death is called. Time is of the essence to shorten the ischemic time — the elapsed time without blood flow to the organs before they can be transplanted into someone else.
“Death was declared within seven minutes of initiating the MAID protocol,” the team wrote.
The dead donor’s heart was removed, attached to a special machine that “reanimates” or restarts hearts to keep blood flowing through the organs while keeping them warm, and then transported to Pittsburgh, where the transplant took place.
The time from retrieval to transplant was five hours and 28 minutes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
”The dead donor rule stipulates that organ donation should not cause or hasten death, and that an individual must be pronounced dead before organ procurement,” according to a review by Canadian authors of the legal and ethical aspects around organ donation after MAID.
I think I’d want this totally private.
If all the donated hearts to receive, he is implanted with what is very likely to be a chronically faulty ticker.
Good luck, mi Amigo!
China and Planned Parenthood have proven that there is big money in parting out human Beings.
Why am I thinking of Larry Niven’s Gil Hamilton?
Do we know enough about ALS to feel certain this organ won’t bring it to this recipient?
Gil and the A.R.M.
Now George Soros can Live Forever!!
I would be tempted to assume that, no, we as a modern, western society still do not know a great deal about ALS.
We know it runs in families, but it’s not at all easy to detect as active.
Even now, year 2025, I don’t think there is any single test for ALS. A Doctor has to evaluate over months, rule everything else out first. Parkinsons can mimic the symptoms, adding to confusion and delay of treatment.
A sinking man will be glad to latch on to anything that floats on water.
Nope the 25 miles long arteries & veins will not last much longer along with liver, kidneys, brain, thyroid, and other glands in Soros’s body.
Getting between a surgeon and a still-breathing donor is more dangerous than getting between Chuck Schumer and a television camera.
They will be force euthanizing within a few years. Also the death penalty will return and be used on succeedingly lesser crimes.
Seems like they’d have better results if they removed the heart while the guy was still alive.
Yep. And a one-world government where easy transplant technology and a shortage of organs donors had resulted in the UN making almost everything a capital crime...
CHINA Is actually pretty good at this, been taking hearts from ‘donors’ for years
Welcome to hear from anyone who does have some medical expertise….
Actual trends have been the opposite.
As a liver recipient since 2021, I would have to agree with you…
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