if i had pure marrow i would do it in a second.
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Thank you Spirit Dancer for posting this thread. I went to work this morning. :| I talked with my CEO and she sent out a e-mail to everyone in our facility. I was so happy to see the response! We will be having a drive Tuesday. And at this very moment we have 64 people signed up to get there cheek swab, and yes, I had to explain to a few of our fellow employees that it's not the cheek that there originally thinking about :hamactor:
Finally our hospital has something to be excited about besides donating blood. Once again, what a wonderful Idea Spirit Dancer, now if I can get the other 39 associates to swab away! |
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Blaze Thank you and your co workers, such a wonderful gift you all are giving. Wishing now there were more drives for Bone Marrow and Stem Cell what a great idea you had.:clap: |
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I had plannd to do this a couple of years after a news article published about a local guy needing a bone marrow transplant. However, during my procrastination, the young man died. I will never know if I could have been a match. Still wears on me. I didn't know there was a registry. Thanks for bringing this to my awareness. And stem cell donation!?
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Sander Florman1 and Charles M. Miller2 1Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane University Hospital and Clinic, New Orleans, LA, and 2The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH Received January 10, 2005; accepted February 2, 2006. With ever-increasing demand for liver replacement, supply of organs is the limiting factor and a significant number of patients die while waiting. Live donor liver transplantation has emerged as an important option for many patients, particularly small pediatric patients and those adults that are disadvantaged by the current deceased donor allocation system. Ideally there would be no need to subject perfectly healthy people in the prime of their lives to a potentially life-threatening operation to procure transplantable organs. Donor safety is imperative and cannot be compromised regardless of the implication for the intended recipient. The evolution of split liver transplantation is the basis upon which live donor transplantation has become possible. The live donor procedures are considerably more complex than whole organ decreased donor transplantation and there are unique considerations involved in the assessment of any specific recipient and donor. Donor selection and evaluation have become highly specialized. The critical issue of size matching is determined by both the actual size of the donor graft and the recipient as well as the degree of recipient portal hypertension. The outcomes after live donor liver transplantation have been at least comparable to those of deceased donor transplantation. Nevertheless, all efforts should be made to improve deceased donor donation so as to minimize the need for live donors. Transplant physicians, particularly surgeons, must take responsibility for regulating and overseeing these procedures. Liver Transpl 12:499-510, 2006. © 2006 AASLD. |
The demand for liver transplantation has continued to
increase in the last three decades and has far outpaced the supply of organs from deceased donors. In the U.S. alone, more than 90,000 people are on transplant waiting lists, whereas the number of deceased liver donors in recent years has remained stable at approximately 6,000.1 More than 18,000 patients are waiting for livers. Allocation of these precious, life-saving organs is currently dictated by patients’ scores on the Model for End-stage Liver Disease, a disease-severity index based solely on bilirubin, creatinine, and international normalized ratio. The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (or, in children, the Pediatric End-stage Liver Disease model) allows prioritization of the sickest patients.2,3 Still, death on the waiting list in 2004 was greater than 10%.1 Faced with these statistics, physicians caring for these patients have endeavored to perform transplants with partial liver grafts from healthy, volunteer live donors. An estimated 7,000 living donor liver transplants have been performed worldwide. |
ADVANTAGES OF LIVE DONORS
Organs from living donors offer many potential advantages over organs from brain-dead donors. The most important advantages of live donation are that it optimizes the timing of transplantation and frees patients from the waiting list. These factors have become especially helpful for patients who are disadvantaged by the cadaver organ allocation scheme, including patients with tumors, cholestatic diseases, or blood type O, as well as those who are retransplantation candidates. Preservation time is minimal in live donor transplants, so there is significantly less ischemic damage to the liver. Live donors are by definition healthy, and therefore the quality of the donated liver is much better. Brain death results in many adverse pathophysiologic effects that damage the liver. Perhaps most importantly, live donor transplantation increases the global pool of transplantable organs, allowing more people to benefit from this potentially life-saving therapy. DISADVANTAGES OF LIVE DONORS There are, however, a number of disadvantages to live donor transplantation which must be considered carefully. The donor, a perfectly healthy volunteer, faces unequivocal risks of morbidity and even mortality which put the procedure at odds with the very basic tenets of medicine and the oath that all physicians pledge to keep: Primum non nocere – First, cause no harm. The risk of death for donors of a left lateral segment or a left lobe is estimated to be approximately 0.1%, whereas the risk for donors of a right lobe is estimated to be approximately 0.4 to 0.5%.25 |
Here is a link to the entire article
with graphs http://www.aasld.org/conferences/Doc...ts/Florman.pdf |
So 'live stem cell donor' is liver transplant? My sister has just been diagnosed with 'C'. She has started chemo therapy with a research drug (weekly injections and daily pill). If after six months the treatment looks as if it is working she will continue, otherwise, next year there is a new drug regiment being introduced, She will start on that one. If that doesn't show results in 6 months, then she will need the transplant. I was thinking I needed to wait to check for match on the liver. So I will go ahead and test for her match. Can one person do more that a one time 'live liver donation' after regrowing the liver?
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Link for Peripheral blood stem cell donation
http://www.stjude.org/SJFile/stem_ce...c_donation.pdf One more important fact Q: Who pays for the donation process? A: Donors never pay for donating, and are never paid to donate. All medical costs for the donation procedure are covered by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), which operates the Be The Match Registry, or by the patient's medical insurance, as are travel expenses and other non-medical costs. The only costs to the donor might be time taken off from work. |
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The live donor part was for a partial liver transplant. Stem Cells are harvested the same way as a blood donation unless it is a bone marrow donation then it is a surgical procedure. I'm not sure if it would be wise to donate a partial liver more than once, I'll look into it, makes an interesting question. Will add your sister to the candle list if it is okay with you. |
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So we all know the facts from myth
Myths & Facts about Bone Marrow Donation Learn the facts about bone marrow donation to help you make an informed decision about joining the Be The Match Registry®. MYTH: All bone marrow donations involve surgery. FACT: The majority of donations do not involve surgery. Today, the patient's doctor most often requests a peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donation, which is non-surgical. The second way of donating is marrow donation, which is a surgical procedure. In each case, donors typically go home the same day they donate. MYTH: Donating is painful and involves a long recovery. FACT: There can be uncomfortable but short-lived side effects of donating PBSC. Due to taking a drug called filgrastim for five days leading up to donation, PBSC donors may have headaches, joint or muscle aches, or fatigue. PBSC donors are typically back to their normal routine in one to two days. Those donating marrow receive general or regional anesthesia, so they feel no pain during donation. Marrow donors can expect to feel some soreness in their lower back for one to two weeks afterward. Most marrow donors are back to their normal activities in two to seven days. MYTH: Donating is dangerous and weakens the donor. FACT: Though no medical procedure is without risk, there are rarely any long-term side effects. Be The Match® carefully prescreens all donors to ensure they are healthy and the procedure is safe for them. We also provide support and information every step of the way. Because only five percent or less of a donor's marrow is needed to save the patient's life, the donor's immune system stays strong and the cells replace themselves within four to six weeks. MYTH: In bone marrow donation, pieces of bone are removed from the donor. FACT: No pieces of bone are taken during marrow donation. Only the liquid marrow found inside the pelvic bone is needed to save the patient's life. http://www.marrow.org/JOIN/Myths_&_F...Don/index.html |
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He said that it will be an all or nothing situation but he doesn't think I will be approved due to the leukemia. So I asked if it was basically a race to the finish line. He said yes, and I am fine with that. Still, there are so many people who can be helped. I have probably been a tiny bit sanctimonious about the subject because it means so much to me me me. That is not fair and I did not intend to sound like people who do not want to donate are somehow bad or wrong. I'm so sorry if I came off like that. What Cancer Cannot Do Author: Unknown Cancer is so limited... It cannot cripple love. It cannot shatter hope. It cannot corrode faith. It cannot eat away peace. It cannot destroy confidence. It cannot kill friendship. It cannot shut out memories. It cannot silence courage. It cannot reduce eternal life. It cannot quench the Spirit. |
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You in no way came off like that, as a matter of fact it is about you and your fight to live. Never feel that way okay.:) Sending healing light your way with woo (f) |
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I'd offer up any part of me that would save you........I loves you my friend :) |
Thank you please add my sister to the candlelist-Becky McGurn. She is mother of 4; GM of 4. She is a vibrant, loving and caring person.
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Adding her to O/our list here and at home, healing light to you all during this time. :vigil: |
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