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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: News Articles => Topic started by: okarol on November 28, 2007, 11:25:52 AM
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November 27, 2007
Hospital
4 transplant recipients under close watch
Hospital Authority
Four transplant recipients are under close watch after the donor of their organs was later found to have a cancerous tumour.
The Hospital Authority today said the 46-year-old donor died in Queen Elizabeth Hospital October 26 after several days of intensive therapy for a fall.
Doctors noted the ordinary condition of his liver and both kidneys, and were aware of a 1.4cm diameter lung nodule which was considered benign.
An organ donation appeal was conveyed to the man's relatives after considering the established organ donation checklist and the related risk assessment. Relatives' consent was obtained and hospitals concerned were informed of the available organs for transplant operations.
The transplantations were performed on October 27 at Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals. The liver graft was transplanted to a seven-month-old boy and a 59-year-old woman while the kidneys were transplanted to two women renal patients aged 30 and 50.
The transplantations were smooth and the patients are stable. They have been discharged apart from the 59-year-old. All are being monitored.
On November 23 a tissue examination subsequent to the previous post-mortem examination of the donor showed a lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma lung nodule. Risk assessment was immediately conducted and the hospitals were informed.
Arrangements have been made to meet the organ recipients and the donor's relatives for detailed discussion on the risk of the patients getting cancer and follow-up treatment. The authority said the chance of recipients getting cancer due to a transplanted organ is very rare.
http://www.news.gov.hk/en/category/healthandcommunity/071127/html/071127en05006.htm
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Holy crap people! Watch out for those organs now. Never know what you might get.
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It's particularly disturbing that they discovered the cancerous tissue 30 days AFTER the organs were transplanted in unsuspecting patients.
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Maybe I am wrong in thinking since it's 2:30 am, but isn't there blood test that can be done especially when you spot benign lumps in the lung. Like HELLO, Red Flag Alert, We better do more test to make sure nothing else is going on. Guess my transplant doc is not head dimwit after all.
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I hope everything turns out ok for all the recipients ;)
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Nothing to worry about unless you are Chinese in China. That Hospital is in Hong Kong, China. Chinese patients,Chinese Doctors following Chinese regulations
or lack of regulations. That is the country that execute people to become donors.
They make tasty food, cheap electronics , fought us in Korea and their morals are up the ying yang.