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6. I just read an article today re transplanted kidney from Hepatitis donor.
Sat Sep 22, 2018, 03:49 PM
Sep 2018

(Can't recall if it's hepatitis C or A - I think it's C).

It seems that there is now a drug - a very expensive drug- that cures this type of hepatitis, and if patient is willing to accept a kidney that would otherwise be discarded, the infected kidney can be used, then the hepatitis cured by the drug.

The patient was in Phoenix AZ, and was doing well, and so relieved not to have to wait years. He got a kidney within 2 weeks after agreeing to accept the kidney infected with hepatitis.



A K&R angstlessk Sep 2018 #1
Thanks Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 #2
Why don't you go thru a Kidney Exchange Program? donkeypoofed Sep 2018 #3
+1 GeorgeGist Sep 2018 #4
I don't see how that would work for an O blood type Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 #7
K&R for visibility. lunamagica Sep 2018 #5
I just read an article today re transplanted kidney from Hepatitis donor. No Vested Interest Sep 2018 #6
Was it a deceased donor? Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 #8
I don't recall reading either way, though I'm inclined to think is was from a deceased donor. No Vested Interest Sep 2018 #9
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