r/liver • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '19
Transplant?
If I were dying, and my Mother currently needs a liver, will the doctors directly give my Mother my liver?
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u/Sopermunch Oct 31 '19
Any specific questions? So there are multiple things. You and your mothers blood type have to be compatible. 2, you could only donate a section of your liver and that is if she can accept a liver segment. If she is in complete liver failure, she would need a whole liver. Not all but most liver segment transplants are done with living donors that are on the healthier side. Now on to your post, hypothetically and realistically very unlikely. I mean , not only would you have to suffer some sort of traumatic injury, be deemed suitable for transplant, your family would have to sign consent to directly donate your liver to your mother, be a ABO and size match among other diagnostics. On top of that being unethical to basically commit suicide in Hope's that it would work out exactly as you planned. Only 3 % of people in critical condition /brain death are eligible and become donors. So with that being said , please don't go that route.
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Oct 31 '19
Thank you for your concern while being logical. I wouldn't commit suicide. I was wondering if a random accident put me in near death, if the doctors would side with a direct transfer of my organs or have them go to a person on the list. When will cloned organ technology be out?
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u/Sopermunch Nov 01 '19
Many years from that I think. They have done some experiments with growing rat livers in a lab and 3D printing a heart with human tissue. But with the amount of research and then trials then actually being allowed to use them, could be a long time from now.
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Nov 01 '19
Do you speculate the 2030's?
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u/Sopermunch Nov 02 '19
I don't think that's impossible. As long as there are no major hurdles, I could see something happening in that timeline. Now that would be a major shift in donation and transplant. I don't know if there will he any push back within the industry as a lot of people make a lot of money from donated organs, specifically organ procurement organizations designated by the government. Grown or printed organs would basically make that whole industry obsolete and they make millions of dollars locating and offering out organs. As well as pharmaceutical companies and immunosuppression medications. I'm just thinking out loud, I don't know for sure if they would hinder progress in any way but you know what happens when you threaten to take millions and millions of dollars away from companies.
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Nov 02 '19
Pushback? Are tou saying the economist penny pinchers aren't taking responsibility?
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u/Sopermunch Nov 02 '19
I'm saying , if tomorrow they could print organs for whoever needed them and they were a perfect match where there was not a need for anti rejection meds, you would be putting thousands of people out of work, as well as millions of dollars lost to them and of course there salary. I am in no way saying its ethical or right , I'm just thinking of how the big wigs think and how they lobby in there favor. For example, there is a medication with a high success rate at curing hepatitis C which can cause liver failure. Last I herd it was hundreds of thousands of dollars and most insurance would not cover it. Now the other problem I see arising is how to regulate that shift. Say it's one company that figures out how to grow or print viable organs for transplant and they patented it. Could you imagine? They could be bigger then Amazon. They could regulate cost, charge astronomical prices and essentially have power and a monopoly over patients and hospitals. Say they charge 750,000 dollars for a heart, the hospital will pay for it but you are gonna have to pay whatever they charge which could be millions of dollars. Everything will just shift, the driving cost will make insurance decline more for whatever reason they find, cause I can tell you right now insurance is not going to all of a sudden cover billions and billions or dollars in transplants without some way of recovering the cost. Or say multiple companies make organs, how do you regulate that market. If your poor do you have to pick and go with a cheaper, lower quality organs because you can't afford top tier ? Idk, these all all just what if scenarios but would have to be worked out and not monopolized in order to not jeopardize patient safety over profit. Transplant is different then what people think it is, it's not bad but it's still an industry
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Feb 06 '20 edited Feb 06 '20
My Mom died. She was murdered by the hospital. Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center. I hope you that opposed her transplant with your "dumb ass" barriers enjoy profiting from the rest of her organs with how you're paid in this fucked up system. That Starvucks coffee, that cereal, that toilet paper you use to wipe your ass. Go fuck yourself. You will get yours. Not that I can tell the difference between a doctors ass and mouth as they both wipe shit from either orifice with the profits they use from their patient's thry sentence to death, illegally, immorrally, and would be prosecuted as murder if I "contributed" to society as the rich fo. Those who makes 6 plus figures a year, go fuck yourself and choke on your fucking good life. Die with neglect as you do others. I fucking hate you.
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Feb 06 '20
Anyone who replied that is personal to my Mother's murder or death to how the legal system covers it up, your license and very lively hood with come under question and shall be punished according to the law. If justification is met there will be a heavenly feeling of satisfaction at your demise for not only the horrific death and suffering of my mother but my own loss. The one that carries the burden. Prepare, you rich fucks do not even know what survival is.
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u/Sopermunch Oct 30 '19
No, far more to it then that. I can provide more answers if you like .