Organ transplants
Diana Quiroz
Ms Rodriguez
Honors English IV period 1
February 5, 2014
Organ Transplants:
Kidney and Pancreas
It is six o’clock on a cool Wednesday night at UMC hospital in Tucson, Arizona. The teams of doctors are in the operating room preparing for a surgery that will change the life of one person forever. This wait is finally over, prayers have been answered. This person is about to receive new organs; it will be as if they will be born again. This person is given what most people dream of having in live, a second chance. An evaluation of the transplant process, potential complications and prognosis for a normal life will outline the risks and benefits of a kidney and pancreas transplant. What exactly is a transplant? A transplant is a surgical procedure where they insert someone’s organ into a patient who has lack of function of the organ in question (History Staff). One myth people have on transplant procedures is that doctors replace the organ being transplanted. In reality they do not remove it they simply set it aside of the new organ (Rivero, Personal Interview). Transplants were not at first done using human organs. In 1904 a pig kidney was transplanted into a human being (Winters 8). Later on that patient died after a couple of days. In the fall of 1997, 19 year old Richard Pennington was working when he came down with the flu (Winters 30). After testing he found out it was not the flu but fulminate hepatic failure. Fulminate hepatic failure is the sudden death of the liver (Winters 30). It is also known as acute liver failure, and it is when dead liver cells are replaced with scar tissue instead of new cells (Liver Disease Archives). Prompted by the urgency of the situation, Dr. Levy proposed a highly experimental procedure: hooking Robert up to a Nextran pig liver (Winters 30). Pennington was the first person to be approved by the government to be subject to such an experiment (Winters 30). Nextran is a company that has made it
Ms Rodriguez
Honors English IV period 1
February 5, 2014
Organ Transplants:
Kidney and Pancreas
It is six o’clock on a cool Wednesday night at UMC hospital in Tucson, Arizona. The teams of doctors are in the operating room preparing for a surgery that will change the life of one person forever. This wait is finally over, prayers have been answered. This person is about to receive new organs; it will be as if they will be born again. This person is given what most people dream of having in live, a second chance. An evaluation of the transplant process, potential complications and prognosis for a normal life will outline the risks and benefits of a kidney and pancreas transplant. What exactly is a transplant? A transplant is a surgical procedure where they insert someone’s organ into a patient who has lack of function of the organ in question (History Staff). One myth people have on transplant procedures is that doctors replace the organ being transplanted. In reality they do not remove it they simply set it aside of the new organ (Rivero, Personal Interview). Transplants were not at first done using human organs. In 1904 a pig kidney was transplanted into a human being (Winters 8). Later on that patient died after a couple of days. In the fall of 1997, 19 year old Richard Pennington was working when he came down with the flu (Winters 30). After testing he found out it was not the flu but fulminate hepatic failure. Fulminate hepatic failure is the sudden death of the liver (Winters 30). It is also known as acute liver failure, and it is when dead liver cells are replaced with scar tissue instead of new cells (Liver Disease Archives). Prompted by the urgency of the situation, Dr. Levy proposed a highly experimental procedure: hooking Robert up to a Nextran pig liver (Winters 30). Pennington was the first person to be approved by the government to be subject to such an experiment (Winters 30). Nextran is a company that has made it
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