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Just imagining a surgery gone sideways situation and they just decide to trade the one still in with the one they just took out. (Not even sure this is an opti
by caust1c 3y ago
Just imagining a surgery gone sideways situation and they just decide to trade the one still in with the one they just took out.
(Not even sure this is an option, orientation and all, just imaging)
- ryanbrunner 3y agoTransplanted kidneys generally go lower in your belly than your "native" kidneys and they aren't swapped, the original kidneys are left in and they add another. Anyone who's had a transplant most likely has 3 or even 4 kidneys inside them.
- Waterluvian 3y agoThis is probably the most concrete “I had no idea it worked that way” this year for me. So you can collect kidneys!
- Suzuran 3y agoThey only remove them if they have some kind of immediate risk of damage to the body - Necrosis or similar. On top of that, while your original kidneys won't have enough function to sustain life, any function they do have will take some burden off of the transplant kidney(s).
- Waterluvian 3y agoIt makes complete sense once I think about it. My mental framing is too often based on technology. Ie. there’s two kidney slots that you can populate with one kidney each.
- Suzuran 3y agoIf it helps, you can think of all medicine as reverse-engineering and hacking a machine the vendor has ceased supporting and won't provide documentation for.
- Suzuran 3y agoMine is located on my right side just above the midline of my pelvis.
- ryanbrunner 3y agoYup, same here! Mine is (somewhat unfortunately) pretty superficial so you can even see a small bulge where it is.