Chapter 897 Kidney Transplantation (Leader Cws6682 Leader Adds 4)

Seeing Vice President Yuan walk out of the operating room, the air relaxed a little. Director Miao turned and stepped down, saying, "Boss Zheng, let's go together."

Zheng Ren responded, and gave the seat to Mr. Yu Jianshui to watch on the operating table. Tear off the surgical gown, take off the lead coat, and let out a long breath.

"Boss, can it work?" Su Yun asked after following him.

"I don't know, but if you have no choice, you can try it." Zheng Ren said.

This kind of situation where you may live if you try it, and you will die if you don't try it, is what doctors hate the most.

"What happened in 1954 finally caused a big commotion." Su Yun said.

"Yes." Zheng Ren nodded.

On Christmas Eve in 1954, Joseph E. Murray's hospital received a pair of identical twin brothers, 23-year-old brother Ronald Herrick and younger brother Richard Herrick.

Both are soldiers.

With the end of the service period, the two retired together to start a new life, but at this moment, the younger brother was detected with severe nephritis.

Richard Herrick's nephritis was so severe that he would have died quickly even if he had been treated.

After summing up all the cases, Joseph E. Murray decided to perform a kidney transplant between the two brothers.

Prior to this, Joseph E. Murray had only done countless animal experiments. He found that the more closely related the animal, the more likely it was that it would survive surgery successfully.

For Joseph E. Murray, human trials were a godsend.

But then he faced tremendous social pressure, and titles such as butcher and executioner flocked to him.

Because his younger brother Richard's nephritis is a chronic disease, although it is life-threatening, it is different from the patient in front of him.

Joseph E. Murray first performed skin grafting on the two brothers. The effect of the operation was encouraging, and it was confirmed that there was no rejection.

But before the surgery, the surgery really became a huge social problem. Joseph E. Murray was under great pressure, and finally the operation was carried out under the judgment of the Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

It is undoubtedly difficult to accept that an organ transplant operation requires a judge of the federal court to judge. Doctors are like murderers.

Later, the operation was successful, but Joseph E. Murray did not win the Nobel Prize for his first successful kidney transplant.

How could Su Yun, who was thinking about the Nobel Prize, not know about this dusty past.

In 1990, Joseph E. Murray was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contribution to "the study of human organ and cell transplantation".

The award is also mainly because of the research on organ transplantation rather than the new technique of organ transplantation.

It can be seen that the Nobel Prize judges are resistant to the new technique.

It took 46 years between the success of the first operation and the award of the Nobel Prize!

So almost everyone is not optimistic about the TIPS surgery project, and there are reasons for this.

"Twins may not be a perfect match." Su Yun started the fault-finding mode.

"This is a way, whether to do it or not depends on the situation."

"Even for pre-operative matching, it will take at least one day." Su Yun continued.

"If you don't do it, you won't survive a day. If you do it, you still have a chance."

"Boss, I can't help but admire your surprise in thinking. Do you really want to cause trouble for yourself?" Su Yun's disdain was beyond words.

"The situation is quite special. Besides, I'm only offering my opinion, and the big guys are here to make the decision. When will I show up?" Zheng Ren threw the lead clothes aside, wondering if he should take the master-level book The skill book is used.

"Kidney transplantation, I have really studied it. But it seems that the kidney is easier to transplant than the heart, but that is for surgery. In terms of organizational structure, the kidney is infinitely more complicated than the heart." Su Yun changed the subject and said.

"It must be like this. Renal tubules, collecting ducts, etc., can be 3D printed? I think the current technology will take at least 20 years."

"Jennifer Lewis, a materials scientist and professor of bioengineering at Harvard University, used 3D printing to create the proximal tubules in a human kidney, as reported on the MIT Technology Review website on October 19, 2016.

This is the most important structure that makes up the basic functional unit of the kidney, and it functions almost exactly like the proximal tubule in a healthy kidney. "Su Yun is familiar with information related to 3D printing and organ transplantation.

"But only up to this point, no matter how many, there are no new reports in the world."

"If you can get out the kidney tubules, that's pretty good."

While talking, the two walked upstairs.

They are all passages in the operating room, with a laminar flow space and a suitable temperature, which makes people feel very comfortable.

But in the face of such a difficult operation, facing a dying patient, no one can be happy.

Zheng Ren and Su Yun kept talking, and they also used dialogue to relieve the tension in their hearts.

"There are a lot of nonsense on the Internet, but they are very eye-catching." Su Yun said as he walked, "I used to go online to make bricks, but I didn't bother to do it later."

"Everyone likes alarmist gossip." Zheng Ren knew what Su Yun was talking about.

The stories circulated on the Internet usually happened at night. A man couldn't help being tempted, and went to a hotel with a strange girl to discuss life plans.

When the conversation got excited, he fell asleep after a few glasses of wine, and woke up to find himself lying naked in a bathtub full of ice cubes. He just regained consciousness, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower back, and saw a note beside the bathtub: Hurry up and call the police, or you will die! "

This kind of joke was most widely circulated when the kidney machine first appeared. Another thing is to travel abroad, and the daughter-in-law is suddenly lost. Then he searched frantically for countless years, and finally found out that he was made into a seal man and went to beg along the street.

This kind of lie is not worth scrutinizing at all, but many people believe it to be true.

For kidney transplantation, there are very strict procedures before the operation. The matching is first, and the next step can only be continued after the matching is completed. And many patients waiting for a kidney source put their names on several hospitals that can perform kidney transplantation. Whichever one has news, where to go immediately.

"Boss, do you know what my first thought was when I saw the joke about cutting the kidney?" Su Yun asked.

"You still have ideas? You're really full of energy. After I saw it, I just skipped it, and I didn't have any ideas at all." Zheng Ren was very nervous, and he couldn't help but start to smack people.

"Cut!" Su Yun didn't quarrel with Zheng Ren. After cutting, he said, "I think they just want to eat kidneys. But if the medical environment is worse in the future, I will become a freelance writer. Make sure I write all kinds of sensational things, even you can't tell it's fake."

"you sure?"

"..." Su Yun was silent. When it comes to various pieces of knowledge, Zheng Ren is no worse than himself. But boss, do you know how stressful you are? Su Yun thought to himself.