Rsv in lung transplant patients
Common Questions and Answers about Rsv in lung transplant patients
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I wish I had good news about you donating your Aunt one of your lungs. My Mother received a single lung transplant in 2007. A lung cannot be taken from a live donor though. The lung has to be harvested from a very recently deceased donor. And I so hate telling you this, but getting approved for a lung transplant is lengthy and much is involved. They put my Mother through many many tests. She had a lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Which is a terminal lung disease.
Felix and others are now trying to raise enough for new organs through NTAF, a nonprofit organization based in Pennsylvania formerly known as the National Transplant Assistance Fund that helps transplant patients pay for their medical costs. National coverage of their plight has already led to more than $100,000 in donations for some of the patients affected by the budget cuts. The Felix family is also planning a yard sale this weekend so he does not lose the chance to get another liver.
He has pneumonia every other month (since birth), he has also had bronchiolitis (without RSV), bronchitis, H1N1, and most currently RSV. When he was two we removed his tonsil and adenoids in hopes to help his asthma symptoms. While it did decrease the amount of sinus infections he had, it did nothing to help any other area.
He is on Advair, 115/21 two puffs twice daily, and Allegra (for unknown allergies).
It usually manifest itself as a cold in adults and older children, but can cause serious problems in infants. RSV can cause lower respitory infections, breathing problems, pneumonia or even death.
According to statistics, over 125,000 infants are hospitalized annually with Respiratory Syncytial Virus, resulting in more than 500 deaths.
RSV can be contracted by placing your hand in your mouth after you have come in contact with an infected person or surface.
The transplant coordinator also reviews the in-depth Consent for Evaluation for Liver Transplant, which patients must understand and sign before they can proceed with a transplant evaluation.
Finally, the transplant coordinator outlines the medical tests and consultations that must be performed as part of the evaluation process.
A heart transplant is not something you go into lightly. It is not a cure; it only extends life. I've known people who died on the table, I've known 2 people who have lived 10 years and have heard of one person who has made it 20 years. No one can give you a definate answer as to how long you will live for. You have to take ANTIrejection drugs for the rest of your life and that isn't easy to do.
Prior to transplant, there were 2 suspicious lesions in the right lung (8mm ground glass nodule in right upper lobe and a lobulated nodule (not sure of size) in the lower lung). Now, the fear sets in that the suspicious lesions may be mestastic cancer from the HCC in the liver.
HCC in the liver was one lesion, measuring 1.8cm (according to pathology report) with no vessel invasion. FYI...
He only had 1/4 of one lung. I asked about a lung transplant and was told he was to young. How old do you have to be to get an organ transplant? I also don't understand why they didn't do fetal surgery. I know it is risky but it would have increased his chances from zero. What hospital do you feel is the best able to deal with this condition? He was born at Parkland in Dallas, TX.
it proves nicely that even high doses of RSV are unlikely to have any effect on HCV replication in vivo in man. How so?
On page 187 Fig 2 you will see the effect of increasing micromols of RSV on fold replication of the HCV construct, readout by the luciferase assay.
On page 188 similarlily in fig 4 the effect on the subgenomic replicon cells. RSV in micromols/Liter vs fold replication enhancement. Good work, we assume.
She had congestive heart failure with fluid retention in arma and legs and both lungs. She had pneumonia, rsv and mersa in her kidneys and lungs. She was malnurioushed and the diabetes was acting up. She ended up with a thorancentesis on her right lung which removed 2 ltrs of fluid. Now we are on day 23 and she is in ltac. Still has chest tube and is on high levels of oxygen, iv meds. She had a thoracentesis on the right lung again 1/2 a week ago.
He has pneumonia every other month (since birth), he has also had bronchiolitis (without RSV), bronchitis, H1N1, and most currently RSV. When he was two we removed his tonsil and adenoids in hopes to help his asthma symptoms. While it did decrease the amount of sinus infections he had, it did nothing to help any other area.
He is on Advair, 115/21 two puffs twice daily, and Allegra (for unknown allergies).
The only caution he gave me was that as I was getting closer to transplant, to stop using it because they will not give me the transplant if they saw cannabis in my system. I took his advice and stopped almost a year before transplant. That was the only time he cautioned me. Otherwise, I was using it nightly to sleep. There has never been a documented case of lung cancer due to smoking marijuana in a pipe. It's the paper one has to beware of.
She spent 4 months in the hospital being brutalized after the transplant. One example of a mistake made. After the new lung was in, a stint had to be put into the lung. They open my mother up for surgery. Once she was on the table, they realized they did not have the proper stint to put in her. That is only bad example of poor care she received. And this was a top university hospital in this country. We finally moved her to another hospital. But, by then it was just too late to save her.
Is there any medical research or concrete knowledge that indicates that smoking marijuana after a liver transplant is injurious to the new/transplanted liver or detrimental in general to transplant patients?
UW Health physicians are recognized experts in their field, providing care to patients in our heart, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas, intestine, islet cell and pediatric transplant programs.
It is important for patients to understand their options regarding multiple listing for transplant, and the benefits of being listed at the UW Health Transplant Program.
What is multiple listing?
Multiple listing involves registering on the waitlist at two or more transplant centers.
My boyfriend a 51yr male has been listed for a lung transplant in the next 30 days.He was diagnosed with,PF,COPD, and emphysema.. He has no other health problems. His PFT scores average 51% and he uses oxygen most of the time.He has never undergone a second opinion from a pulmonary doctor.Does he really need a double lung transplant or is there medication that can be used instead of this drastic surgery? He also has never been prescribed any medications for this condition.
For instance juvenile diabetes is thought to be triggered by a virus - the child was already set up to be vulnerable to developing it, they catch a viral illness and a few weeks later their pancreas starts to stop working and they develop signs of diabetes. Same goes with rsv, a very common respiratory virus that in infants and the elderly ( or immunosuppressed ) can cause them to be very ill.
His gastroenterologist is totally ignorant of the basic facts of liver transplantation. Most centers transplant to age 70 normally. Most of us liver transplant patients are in our 50s-60s when we get our transplants.
I would not trust anything that gastro has to say if he is so misinformed about the basics of liver transplant. I would get copies of all my records and never see him again. His opinions are not based on any knowledge.
Gastros are not liver specialist first of all.
A study has reported that pleural effusion was present in 10% of chest X-rays in cirrhotic patients. In the vast majority of cases, ascites is also present. It is well known that in cirrhotic patients, a large volume of ascitic fluid is generally well tolerated due to the capacitance of the peritoneal cavity. On the other hand, even modest volumes of pleural fluid can cause significant respiratory symptoms, including dyspnea and chest pain.
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