Chapter 2435: Mutual Understanding
From this, we can see that matching is not for treatment, but to prevent rejection reactions and transplant failure. Simply put, if it weren’t for this HLA threshold, anyone could donate hematopoietic stem cells to the patient.
HLA is a system, a leukocyte antigen system, that includes many things. The focus on HLA is because it is the primary antigen causing transplant rejection reactions, thus called transplant antigen. Is it only HLA that causes rejection reactions? Certainly not. As mentioned before, medical research can only apply what current study has reached.
Other factors could be a concern, which is why medicine first seeks donors within the family. While the chance of HLA compatibility is high, it’s also possible to exclude other factors causing rejection reactions, given that they have partially similar genetic genes.
If no match is found within the family, medicine can only try to search for HLA-compatible individuals among others, hoping that their ancestors perhaps were the same a long, long time ago. There’s an old saying in the donation circle, "matching is fate," and this fate comes precisely from this.
Understanding this fate, unfamiliar donors may feel as if they’ve found relatives from ancient times and will be very willing to do this good deed and donate.
This is also why medical staff repeatedly emphasizes that donation is based on the principle of voluntariness. Everyone has their own reason for choosing to donate or not. Just because you don’t get their reason doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
"You’re overthinking it. Shihua, do you think they’re urgent calling others because they might want to donate themselves? If they wanted to donate themselves, they should chase the doctor first and ask if there’s any other way even if my blood type is different from the child’s, shouldn’t they?" Zhang Desheng said with a bit of irritation, hard to describe encounter with such family members in clinical practice.
"If they don’t want to donate themselves." The grandfather is in Hepatobiliary Surgery doing liver transplants, Zhao Zhaowei, for this, had heard many shocking ethical dramas regarding donations, he told other students, "They can say their bodies are unfit, or find other doctors to write a report stating they’re unfit, forcing another person to donate."
A few students discussed it up to this point, and looked at Student Xie.
Other students wanted to ask her opinion on this matter, Xie Wanying said frankly, "Before this matter is clear, don’t discuss other people’s family affairs."
Student Xie is right, being medical personnel, why gossip about other people’s family matters. Everyone immediately quieted down.
Finished lunch. In the morning, it was actually a temporary shift, Student Xie and Student Wei are to switch to night shift tonight and will rest in the afternoon to sleep. Several surgical students agreed to have internal medicine students wake them up, preparing to get up for bone puncture techniques observation.
As the group left the dining hall, Xie Wanying received a call from Hu Hao.
"Yingying, do you need us to accompany you to meet him?" Several students, knowing who called her, expressed their stances.
"It’s fine." Xie Wanying said, recognizing that Hu Hao couldn’t stir up any waves now.
Hu Hao, as the child’s father, has been very proactive these days, coming to NICU daily to visit his son. Now, after seeing his son, he’s come to the cafeteria to find her.
The child’s surgery was very successful, the recovery is going well, and it is estimated he will soon be discharged. Everyone agreed that once the child is discharged, he’d go to Hu Hao’s home. Hu Hao’s mother has come to the Capital, ready to help her son with the child.