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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
This post is concerning how a kidney donor died afer donating her kidney to her husband. The story was taken from the 27th february issue of THE STRAITS TIMES. Two years ago, in february the 15th Madam Kuar was admitted to the hospital, a day before she underwent surgery to donate her left kidney to her husband who was suffering from chronic renal failure.
Chronic renal failure or chronic kidney failure, CKF, is a slowly progressive loss of renal function over a period of months or years and defined as an abnormally low glomerular filtration rate, which is usually determined indirectly by the creatinine level in blood serum.
CRF that leads to severe illness and requires some form of renal replacemnet therapy (such as dialysis) is called end-stage renal disease. You could also have the failing kidney replaced if you could find a donor.
Two years ago, 6 hours after the surgery, his wife Madam Kuar passed away after donating a kidney to him.During the trial,Dr Li Man Kay head of the renal trnasplant team testidied that the surgery was without any complications but Madam Kuar passed away due to the slip of the clips which were holding Madam Kuar's left renal artery and vein shut, resulting in sudden internal bleeding around the area of her abdomen.After this incident the hospital has taken measures to ensure that this does not happen again. They have reinforced the clips with sutures or metal clips to ensure that they do not slip, these clips are called hem-o-loks.
Hem-o-lok clips are being used in major surgical operations to tie up arteries and veins to prevent bleeding.Another doctor Dr Ravintharan believed that is was the pressure from such a large vessel as the renal artery which might have caused the problem as the clip could not have taken that much pressure and causing it to slip.
From this event, i feel sorry that such a mishap had befallen Madam Kuar. However, i would also not blame the doctors as how can you blame them for something that they cannot control. I haev also learned from this review that have a disease is not something which is good as it affects ourselves and our friends and relatives.In this case it cause the death of his wife, so the best way i can think of to prevent this from happening to me is to eat heathly and exercise regularly.
Chronic renal failure or chronic kidney failure, CKF, is a slowly progressive loss of renal function over a period of months or years and defined as an abnormally low glomerular filtration rate, which is usually determined indirectly by the creatinine level in blood serum.
CRF that leads to severe illness and requires some form of renal replacemnet therapy (such as dialysis) is called end-stage renal disease. You could also have the failing kidney replaced if you could find a donor.
Two years ago, 6 hours after the surgery, his wife Madam Kuar passed away after donating a kidney to him.During the trial,Dr Li Man Kay head of the renal trnasplant team testidied that the surgery was without any complications but Madam Kuar passed away due to the slip of the clips which were holding Madam Kuar's left renal artery and vein shut, resulting in sudden internal bleeding around the area of her abdomen.After this incident the hospital has taken measures to ensure that this does not happen again. They have reinforced the clips with sutures or metal clips to ensure that they do not slip, these clips are called hem-o-loks.
Hem-o-lok clips are being used in major surgical operations to tie up arteries and veins to prevent bleeding.Another doctor Dr Ravintharan believed that is was the pressure from such a large vessel as the renal artery which might have caused the problem as the clip could not have taken that much pressure and causing it to slip.
From this event, i feel sorry that such a mishap had befallen Madam Kuar. However, i would also not blame the doctors as how can you blame them for something that they cannot control. I haev also learned from this review that have a disease is not something which is good as it affects ourselves and our friends and relatives.In this case it cause the death of his wife, so the best way i can think of to prevent this from happening to me is to eat heathly and exercise regularly.
LIVING.out.of.REALITY;
4:59 AM
