China News Service, Nanning, May 18 (Wu Xinran and Chen Yanyou) "Don't donate like this, as if my dear child hasn't left and is still in a certain place ..." Donated kidney children's family members told reporters on the 18th.
In early April 2020, infants close to 2 years old, Xiao Bing (pseudonym), suffered from repeated high fever, tiredness, drowsiness and other phenomena. After examination in the hospital, Xiao Bing was found to be seriously ill and was admitted to hospital for treatment. On the morning of the 14th, Xiaobing's condition deteriorated sharply. After a series of rescues in the hospital, Xiaobing's vital signs were reluctantly maintained by drugs and machines. The hospital finally determined that Xiaobing was brain dead.
After accepting this fact, the family members of Xiaobing decided to donate useful organs to their children after a fierce ideological struggle, and let Xiaobing use another way to "live" in this world. Subsequently, Xiao Bing's family contacted the organ donation coordinator of the People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and after carefully understanding the details of human organ donation. The family members of Xiao Bing carefully signed the "Confirmation of Human Organ Donation in China" under the witness of doctors, organ donation coordinators and Red Cross staff.
It is reported that Xiaobing's left and right kidneys were successfully transplanted to two adult uremia patients recently. At present, the indicators of the two patients recovered smoothly and reached the level of discharge.
Medical staff mourns Xiao Bing for Lai Yanhua
Lai Yanhua, director of the transplantation department of the People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said that the organ development structure of infants and young children is complete, but the volume is small, especially the arterial blood vessels are thin and the vascular tissue is very easy to damage. The difficulty of transplantation is far more than that of adult kidney transplantation. "Understanding the characteristics of children's donors and kidneys, choosing appropriate recipients and surgical methods, reducing post-transplant complications through technical improvements, and allowing donors to sustain their lives are the issues we need to focus on the most."
Lai Yanhua said that the number of nephrons in the human body has been developed in the late embryonic period. Compared with the adult donor kidney, the filtration capacity of the donor kidney of infants and young children can be improved as the child recipient grows and develops, so although the risk after early transplantation is high , But if successful, normal function and good prognosis can be restored. At the same time, the success of this operation has also opened up a wider field for alleviating the current shortage of donor organs, and more patients with organ failure will benefit in the future.