Can one receive extra transplants of organs?
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Are you referring to like getting two hearts, 4 kidneys, etc? No. There are no systems to implant them into and probably no space either.
Organs for transplants are rare, and there are waiting lists for them. They are not going to give you a spare liver you can fry up for dinner, when there are other people waiting for a transplant.
It would be physically impossible aside from being ethically immoral since people who need them wait 3–5 years to get one. On an average day there are 100,000 people on a waiting list and only about 14,000 deceased organ donors per year as of 2021— each giving around 3.5 organs to recipients—and about 6,000 organs made available each year by living donors.
Let me ask my good friend Dr Victor Frankenstein.
~Umm… I could use a prostate if anyone has one to spare. :-)
@LuckyGuy – I wish I could give you the excess amounts in mine.
Let’s ask the Wizard!!!
“What would you do with a brain if you had one?”
This is an incredibly silly question IMHO.
The closest I can get @LuckyGuy, is a prostitute.
Where would they attach? Where would the third kidney be connected? Or the second heart?
I suppose theoretically a surgeon could split the aorta to go to multiple hearts, and maybe even reroute some veins on the way back in.
But the problem is not the heart per se, it’s that much of the body uses electronic impulses to operate (which is why defibrillators and artificial hears work), and the second hear would need to be ‘wired in’ as well.
Bottom line: the problem is not the hardware (i.e the physical stuff) – it’s the software (nerves, etc) that would be impossible to make work.
Most organs have a limited time frame for which it MUST be transplanted, so you can’t save it until later. So, at this point, the answer is NO!!!
Someday you ought to be able to clone an extra organ or two. Then you’ll be able to add extra organs to your heart’s content.
When a kidney is transplanted, they leave the old bad kidney, too.
@Call_Me_Jay That’s true. A friend needed a kidney transplant and her kidneys were working at a very low capacity. She got a kidney from a relative, and the doctor said since the old kidneys were working, he left them in, so now she has three kidneys. This is in case the new one fails for any reason, she still has the two that are hers, so she would need dialysis but at least she’d have working kidneys.
Wait, Wait, Don’t tell,
Is this an organ that you really can play?
@jca2 – that’s what they did for Selena Gomez. She now has three kidneys.
Why would they do that?
I dunno, but I donated a kidney and that’s what happened. Also, coincidentally, 10 years later, I now work in the hospital where I donated, and I often work with transplant donors, receivers, and nurses. Meaning I am a decent source of info on this subject.
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