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Listvianka · Frequent Guest Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 52

Have you heard of the Australian girl who is to get her mother's liver? The medics said her mothers liver was the most adapted!!! Don't you know that two years ago a procedure was found and aproved to make transplants from any donnor, of your blood type, as good. And the success rate is not supposed to be just 80%! I consider these doctors as butchers: they are using outdated procedures which make no sense.

UsualSuspect · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:33 am Post subject: ??

Listvianka,
Hmm..never heard of that one and I live here (Aus). Nikir, has this one crossed the papers where you are?

Any links for this newsworthy morsel Listvianka??

The only liver transplant who's made the news I've heard about is the girl who got one and now needs another due to her chronic drug abuse, and the family wonders why more than a fair few people are outraged (I suspect media hype...) at footing part of the 250,000.00 bill.

Usualsuspect

Listvianka · Frequent Guest Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 52

Price is not the issue here... It is the medical procedure! It is now possible to change the cells of a donnar's organ to make it perfectly fit the recipient. The body then recognises the organ as its own rather than a foreign one: and hense no infection.

nikir · Frequent Guest Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 23

Listvianka · Frequent Guest Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 52

Forget it. It is very much like the patient who had a bone marrow transplant in Germany 3 years ago. He had the aids virus before the operation and no sign of it afterwards! But the news was only made public for a very short time then hushed up. It is difficult to find this proof.

nikir · Frequent Guest Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 23

You don't by chance mean this one do you?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7726118.stm

A simple keyword search on Google yielded many results in a very short time. Hardly what I'd call hushed up.

I think you should forget the Aussie example you raised. Barking up the wrong tree there mate. Wink

You probably won't consider coming here if you need a liver transplant.

Listvianka · Frequent Guest Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 52

I may well be wrong but I believe Australia as good a place, just perhaps more expensive than Japan. But if you want to know the very best place for any treatment I believe to be in American Hospitals found outside the US.
The point I was trying to raise is just that despite having advanced technology doctors can no longer apply the latest practises. Probably a copyright issue, I don't know.

staleek · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:21 pm Post subject:

Listvianka, I'm not sure what procedure you're referring to, but as an almost 13 year liver transplant recipient, and a former organ procurement coordinator here in the U.S. (surgical coordinator on the organ transplant recovery team), I can only assume that you are referring to adult living related donor transplants. These procedures have been done in the US for some time, and while it is more often than not done between related individuals, non-related individuals can undergo the procedure. The most important factors are, in addition to blood type, as you mentioned, body size. Perhaps this is what the doctors were referring to when they said the patient's mother was "most suited?"

Just for historical information, the first liver transplant was performed here in the U.S. by Dr. Thomas Starzl in Denver, in the 70's, who then moved his practice to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The Starzl Institute is considered the Mecca of liver transplantation. No, I did not work there. I worked for an organ transplant center here in upstate, New York. I received my liver transplant (due to an autoimmune disease) at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC, while working as a NYC paramedic in Brooklyn.

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