克里斯•施罗德(Chris Schroeder)非常不幸,同时也非常幸运. The 58-year-old Walnut Creek, 加州, 居民成长在一个多囊肾病的家庭, 肾脏囊肿一种在肾脏上形成囊肿并最终使其停止工作的疾病, 出现大.
当克里斯·施罗德的肾脏衰竭时,他的家人挺身而出
His mother had a kidney transplant in her late 60s, and her father died of hereditary disease at the age of 56. So from a young age, 施罗德一直在寻找他也会面临类似挑战的迹象.
By the time he was in his early 40s, his kidney function was declining, 但十大赌博平台排行榜认为他还能再活30年才需要进行移植手术. 不幸的是,在他50岁左右,事情变得更糟了. 2007年,他接受了第一次肾脏移植手术,这要感谢一位意想不到的捐赠者——他的妻子索尼娅.
虽然亲人自愿捐献器官并不罕见, 他的妻子与施罗德匹配的机会比平时要小,因为索尼娅是墨西哥血统,与他的基因库完全不同. 施罗德试图说服他的妻子不要参加考试,但她坚持要去. 尽管几率极低,这对夫妇最终还是成为了一对.
Within five years of the transplant, 虽然, a rare condition developed that caused the new kidney to fail. 再一次。, 施罗德的一位家庭成员挺身而出——这次是他19岁的儿子, 以斯拉记, a student at Diablo Valley College. 在UCSF医疗中心移植外科十大赌博平台排行榜. 2014年12月18日,父亲和儿子南希·阿舍尔在十大赌博平台排行榜同时接受了手术 UCSF Connie Frank Transplant Center.
What happened after you had the first transplant?
Things were all good for a while, but around the five-year mark, 很明显,某种原因也导致了移植肾的衰竭. 他们在加州大学旧金山分校做了大量的测试,最终发现这是一种叫做C1q肾病的疾病, a rare disease that just happened to be attacking the new kidney. 这是一个完全自发的事情——它不是存在于我的“天生”肾脏的东西.
So I went on dialysis, 每天晚上我必须连着一台机器8个小时,然后它通过一种叫做腹膜透析的反渗透过程来净化我的血液, through a catheter implanted in my abdomen. I felt good in the morning, but by bedtime I felt really cruddy. By then my kidney function was below 10 percent, 所以我也有资格回到另一个候补名单上 kidney transplant.
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How did it come up that 以斯拉记 might become a donor?
He first brought it up to his mom, tentatively. And then we all talked about it as a family. Initially I cried. I had mixed feelings. 当然,我为他主动提出捐献而感到无比自豪. 但同时我也很矛盾因为当你的妻子, 谁是50岁?, 想为你做这件事——但当你的孩子想为你做这件事时,这是另一回事. It was a difficult decision. You want it, but it's your son. It was very emotional.
说到他的健康,我们一直在监测他的肾脏. 十大赌博平台排行榜每五年用超声波检查他的囊肿, and he was always free and clear. 但这并不意味着他完全没有问题,因为有三种基因可以引起这些症状, but may not be expressed until later in life. He decided to get tested, and after a very long, 紧张的等待, 结果显示他没有多囊肾病的遗传标记. 作为一家人,我们讨论了这份报告,我问以斯拉他想做什么. He was concerned about how much it might hurt, 但他说他已经考虑过了,想继续捐赠.
How did you feel going into surgery?
我很紧张, but just like with my first transplant, I knew that the doctors at UCSF knew what they were doing. 他们在30多年前就开创了这个项目,加州大学旧金山分校是十大赌博平台排行榜上最大的活体肾脏移植十大赌博平台排行榜. I mean, I think they do over 600 kidney transplants a year. 肾脏移植虽然不是一个小手术,但也不是实验性的.
How was the recovery?
My recovery was not without setbacks. 我在平安夜离开了十大赌博平台排行榜(以斯拉两天前出院了). But two days later, as a side effect of the pain medication, my large intestine shut down, 所以我又去了四天,这样他们就能控制住病情. 我在除夕夜回到家,但三天后同样的症状又出现了. 这次是我小肠的一个结——甚至更痛.
After my fifth day in the hospital, they got things moving again. 他们真的很想避免再次给我开刀做肠道手术, 特别是因为我的第二次移植手术需要一个更大的开口. Normally they just make a rather small, 4-inch-wide opening on the side of your pelvis, but because they also were going to remove my very enlarged, diseased kidneys when I got 以斯拉记's, they had to open me up from my pelvis to my breastbone. 我天生的肾脏太粗糙了——每个重约3磅,上面长满了囊肿.
值得庆幸的是, 从那以后,我的肠道开始顺利运转,我不需要再做任何手术了.
How was it for 以斯拉记?
对以斯拉, it was harder than he imagined, actually – partly because he is such a young, 健康的人,他们必须切断所有的超级强壮的骨盆肌肉. I think he was surprised by the discomfort. 我那个部位没有那么多肌肉,所以这对我和我妻子来说都不是什么大问题. 手术时间正好赶上他的寒假,所以他可以在这段时间内恢复,大约一个月后,他又回来打篮球了.
What is your prognosis?
事实上,这个肾脏来自一个身体大小非常接近的人,对我来说,50%的基因匹配是很棒的, 我的十大赌博平台排行榜说. And so far, things are going well. 第一年我会每六个月做一次活组织检查,然后根据需要进行维护. 只要我在饮食和运动方面照顾好自己,不做任何愚蠢的事情, 这个肾很有可能陪伴我的余生.
Overall, I am just amazed and grateful for all of this. For the fact that my wife was able to give me an organ first, 然后, to have gotten a transplant from someone as young as 以斯拉记, which is not common. The fact that he wanted to do it for me is incredible. 我非常感激我的妻子和儿子愿意经历这一切,给我如此珍贵的东西.