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I'm curious how you'd extract a human heart from a willing human donor without killing the donor. I'm also curious how you'd similarly prepare the human donor i
by bastawhiz 5y ago
I'm curious how you'd extract a human heart from a willing human donor without killing the donor. I'm also curious how you'd similarly prepare the human donor in any way to meaningfully reduce the chances of rejection, like genetic modification.
- barbazoo 5y agoOrgan donors
- bastawhiz 5y agoThe last time I checked, we were already recruiting organ donors at the DMV. How do you suppose we go about increasing the (currently small) number without resorting to unethical means?
- chana_masala 5y agoAm I reading this wrong? Isn't this how you'd do it? > As of 2018, the most common procedure is to take a functioning heart, with or without both lungs, from a recently deceased organ donor (brain death is the standard) and implant it into the patient. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_transplantation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_transplantation
- epgui 5y agoThe point is that there's a gigantic gap between supply and demand, and a lot if not most of the supply goes to waste because you can't stockpile hearts. They need to be harvested from a compatible donor and very quickly transplanted. The odds of finding a compatible match are not great.
- bastawhiz 5y agoThere simply are not enough compatible donors to meet the demand. With an emphasis on "compatible"