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The thing I don't understand is that if the CT scan is more dangerous than having a kidney removed, then surely they'd take the kidney out to see if it was comp
by abainbridge 3y ago
The thing I don't understand is that if the CT scan is more dangerous than having a kidney removed, then surely they'd take the kidney out to see if it was compatible with the recipient rather than give you such a dangerous scan.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoI'm guessing that <CT scan> is more dangerous than <having a kidney removed, given you've cleared the CT scan and other tests>. Plus, <having a kidney removed, studied, and then reinserted after failing some tests>, might be more dangerous than either.
- eru 3y agoThe kidney surgery only looks so low risk (partially) because they only do it on people that passed the CT scan. (To give an even more extreme example for illustration: Suppose the scan could perfectly predict who will die from the surgery and who will live without any side effects. Suppose 90% of people fall into the former and 10% of people fall into the latter category. Suppose further that the scan has a 0.1% chance of killing you. If you scan people beforehand, it will look like the surgery has 0% chance of complications against 0.1% of the scan. But if you dropped the scan, all of a sudden the surgery would have a 90% death rate.)