METHOD:
I went to 6 differerent Transplant centers in the Philippines to get the Facts.
In
total I spoke with 8 Different Transplant Surgeons to get more facts.
Statements from well known and certified Transplant
Surgeons as well as well respected Hospital administrators were given freely.
The report :
1 The heart Transplant
Surgeon- did one transplant in Manila 1996. Patient survived 4 months.
2 Two Liver Transplant Surgeons-
a) American Trained Surgeon- More than 200 transplants, both Kidney and Liver.
Kidney-no operational deaths, zero rejections after one year.
Liver
- no operational deaths , 10% deaths after one yr ( rejection and Liver failure)
b) Japanese
Trained Surgeon- More than one hundred, almost all kidneys
Kidney-no operational
deaths, zero rejections after one year.
Liver- one death during Surgery,
two more deaths in less than three months, from acute rejection and liver failure.
4. Five kidney transplant Surgeons
of which 2 trained in the US while the other 3 trained under a American Surgeon in
the
Philippines.
The two US trained kidney Transplant Surgeons, both had a background in General Surgery
and Urology before going to the US to train as Kidney Transplant Surgeons.
a)
One died last year at the age of 41- I used to question him at Starbucks. His patients came from Japan, Arabian
countries and Korea. No American. He had a perfect success rate with no rejections after one year, with more than 90 transplants.
b) The Second one has transplanted more than 140 patients without any rejections,
after one year.
5. The three Transplant Surgeons who trained under an American Transplant Surgeon.
a) The youngest Transplant Surgeon (a)- has done 48 transplants , however one patient rejected
his kidney after 3 months because he wanted to save money by taking the anti rejection medications every three days. He is
now back on dialysis
b) Kidney transplant Surgeon (b) - more than 300 successful transplants
of which more than 200 were cadaver transplants. Zero Rejections after one year.
c)
Transplant Surgeon (c) works far from Manila , in a lower density province. He has transplanted a couple of American patients.
He uses nothing less than a 2 donor match , but one must be a DR.
He has transplanted about 70, without any rejections , at all.
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The
General parameters : No patient under 14 nor older than 70. Most but not all were on dialysis. Donors included Cadavers,
live related and live unrelated.
Future surveys will contain complete donor data before and after one year as well
as more parameters for the recipient, % of antigen match, any induction therapy used and the different medications used to
prevent long term rejection..