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kidney transplant w/HCV
I recently heard that if a HepC infected person needs a kidney transplant, the donor must also have had HepC. Does this make ANY sense at all?
The subject really isn't confusing. Your response was, however.
Wife 2 asked: "I recently heard that if a HepC infected person needs a kidney transplant, the donor must also have had HepC." (notice the words "must also have had HepC")
You responded: "Hello, Yes that is true".
I believed your response was inaccurate but I tried to be very gentle about it. When you don't admit to giving wrong information I do get confused. The fact that an HCV positive recipient can receive an organ from an HCV positive donor isn't really that confusing.
Mike
Wife 2 asked: "I recently heard that if a HepC infected person needs a kidney transplant, the donor must also have had HepC." (notice the words "must also have had HepC")
You responded: "Hello, Yes that is true".
I believed your response was inaccurate but I tried to be very gentle about it. When you don't admit to giving wrong information I do get confused. The fact that an HCV positive recipient can receive an organ from an HCV positive donor isn't really that confusing.
Mike
Sorry, I know this is confusing! No you can use a kidney that is not Hep.C infected. What doctors are trying to do is properly use all organs they recieve. Since so many people need organs, and as we all know there is a shortage, doctors feel that since the disease will return they should match infected kidneys/livers with HepC. patients. It doesn't mean that will be all that is available to a Hep.C patient. But again if two people are a match for one kidney, the Hep.C kidney will go to the Hep.C patient. I would not turn down an infected kidney/liver if I was a Hep.C patient because the disease will return anyway as we know. So you will not be hurt in any way. Actually the Hep.C patient has an advantage because they can use either kidney. O.K., have I confused you even more? haha :o) Sorry! If I can explain this a little better let me know. ~Kande~
I don't dispute the fact that HCV positive patient can get a HCV positive kidney. What I didn't believe was true is that the donor HAD to be HCV positive. Perhaps that is the protocol now but I know patients transplanted for HCV who later received kidneys from a HCV negative donor. Is it the rule today - that an HCV positive patient can ONLY receive an HCV positive organ? Mike
Hello, Yes that is true. The reason doctors transplant a new kidney with Hep.C is because the new kidney, (if not infected), will get Hep.C eventually anyway. It does not hurt the patient.Doctors do that with liver transplants as well. I have known people that have had transplants with organs infected with Hep.C and they have done very well. As long as the patient already has the disease it is alright. ~Kande~
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