Re: Dealing with back problems

in the UK they do have a higher survival rate in part to dialysis treatments
lasting 6 hours at a time instead of the 4 like here in the US. But if you
have a living donor that matches you will get the transplant much quicker.
Just the same they need more donors, that would be a major help regardless
of the type of system you live under.

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"Mike Fleming" <{mike}@tauzero.co.uk> wrote in message
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In article <AjJGh.2580$X6.1176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "ptooner"
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Strangely enough, you make a good point. However, for the foreseeable
future only a small fraction of those needing kidney transplants will get
them. The technology is limited and obscenely expensive. So, how would
you
suggest we decide who gets the transplant and who doesn't?

In the UK, the rather simple system is to let nature decide - if a
kidney becomes available, tissue matching determines the most
appropriate recipient.

The technology might be obscenely expensive and limited in the US, in
the UK it's rather cheaper (somewhere round $40k for a transplant and
$10k p/a for immunosuppression). I could always ask my future
sister-in-law for more information, she runs a renal unit at a local
hospital.

http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/newsroom/fact_sheets/cost_effectiveness_of_transplantation.jsp

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Mike Fleming


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