Chapter 1060 Taking Skin From a Living Person? Making Medicine From a Living Person!

Cannot be popularized!

No matter how sophisticated the method is, this type of xenoskin transplantation is still in the laboratory stage, and even the materials used are all made with huge financial resources and energy.

For example, pig skin. Burns scientists around the world have done countless tests. Almost all pig skins are very prone to acute rejection reactions. Compared with the treatment effect, patients will die faster.

Therefore, this road has been blocked by more than half, and no one is involved anymore.

With the further advancement of science and technology, gene editing and gene modification have finally entered the human vision, and top medical scientists have applied it to the field of skin grafting, multi-gene editing of pigs and monkeys, and finally Xijing Hospital took the lead in completing a multi-gene editing pig skin transplantation treatment.

It can be said to be recorded in the history of burn medicine.

In the future, this achievement will become a node that cannot be ignored in xenoskin transplantation.

But that's all.

This therapy cannot be replicated or reproduced. It is said to be a cure, but it is actually more like a scientific research exploration regardless of cost and price.

For this success, many academicians and scientific researchers have come forward one after another. It is unknown how much money has been spent to create this miracle, and there will never be another such example.

Because as long as it is proved that "multi-gene edited pig skin has good safety and effectiveness", then this scientific research will be successfully concluded, and all subsequent treatments must be calculated for profit.

If the cost is too high and the patient cannot afford it, of course, more importantly, whether the hospital has the ability... then it is naturally impossible to apply it.

Let alone other hospitals, even if Xijing completed the first case of treatment, they will not repeat it a second time.

So after weighing all the pros and cons, Xu Qiu still set his sights on allogeneic skin transplantation.

This method has no threshold, as long as it is an individual.

Unlike other organ transplants that require various complicated operations such as matching, skin transplantation does not require matching, because the skin between different regions and even different races is actually similar, even the skin donated by Africans can be used on domestic patients.

Except for the black spots, there is no problem.

Of course, allogeneic skin transplantation can only be used to temporarily control infection!

To put it bluntly, it is a temporary solution.

In order to completely control the infection, special blood transfusion must be combined, a two-pronged approach!

Xu Qiu said: "To be precise, it is to transfuse blood with bacterial antibodies!"

This therapy should be familiar to the infectious disease department and the digestive department.

Many patients with intestinal infections who are dying in the ICU often adopt the intestinal flora transplantation therapy when various antibiotics are ineffective.

The scientific name sounds high-sounding, but in fact it is to transplant the functional flora in the feces of healthy people into the patient's body, commonly known as "old brings new", using healthy feces to moisturize the exhausted and damaged intestines... and finally help the body rebuild the intestinal flora.

The special blood transfusion therapy is somewhat similar to this therapy in principle, but it is more like an attenuated vaccine in essence.

However, what is transfused is not healthy feces or attenuated pathogens, but blood with antibodies.

Volunteers are used as transit stations to let them voluntarily inject culture fluids containing three major infectious bacteria: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus and Staphylococcus.

When the healthy volunteers' bodies start the immune defense mechanism, that is, the time when the high fever begins, it proves that antibodies have been produced and a large number of antibodies are fighting against bacteria.

At this time, blood from volunteers was extracted and injected into Tian Ling's body, using the immune system of healthy people to enhance her immunity, and directly using the same antibodies to kill bacteria!

If it works, this will be the main force to control sepsis!

The discussion lasted for more than half an hour, and basically no one present could come up with a better solution.

Kong Lan, Cheng Pingsheng and others felt helpless... Facing Xu Qiu, they suddenly felt that their many titles were useless.

However, when they thought that the other party's honors were definitely not less than their own, and even created miracles, the two were relieved again.

Yes, this should be Xu Qiu's true strength!

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The consultation ended quickly, and Xu Qiu's therapy became Tian Ling's main treatment policy in the new stage.

However, although the direction was determined, palliative measures could only be taken in the short term.

After all, whether it is allogeneic skin transplantation or infusion of blood with bacterial antibodies, it is not something that can be done casually, and it requires strict preliminary preparation.

The former requires finding a skin donor.

Either a living person or skin from a dead donor.

The latter requires volunteers of the same blood type who are willing to be vaccinated with three types of pathogens, and blood can only be taken after the body's immune system takes effect and is evaluated.

"If skin is taken, the patient has extremely severe burns, and the burn area of ​​the whole body exceeds 90%. It is basically impossible to take skin from a living person." Xu Qiu pondered.

Donating a kidney to a loved one is acceptable to quite a number of people.

But if half of the face is peeled off and donated, I am afraid that most people will not be willing.

The skin is too important. It not only plays a barrier role, but also is an organ with social significance. To some extent, it determines the attitude of a person towards others.

Therefore, skin donation from living people is basically not considered, and only dead patients can be used.

Compared with the donation of other organs, the conditions for skin donation are much lower. As long as there is no serious infection, infectious disease, skin-specific autoimmune disease, etc., it is basically qualified.

Moreover, unlike ordinary organs, which can only be stored for a few hours, they will lose their activity if they are not transplanted quickly.

The skin can be preserved for years by refrigeration!

Therefore, Xu Qiu can slowly communicate with the family members of deceased patients, obtain donation consent, take a part from each deceased donor, and collect enough fragments to form a complete person...

This is also the best way. After all, Tian Ling needs too much skin. The family may be willing to donate all the internal organs because they cannot be seen, but it is absolutely impossible for doctors to peel off the skin of their dead relatives.

So you can only take an area that is not obvious.

Fortunately, after the skin has been processed, there is not much difference between the skin grafts taken from different people. As long as they are handled properly, there will be no problems.

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Next, the clinic began to recruit donors and antibody blood volunteers to treat Tian Ling.

During this period, the patient with a twin uterus that they met in the emergency room at night came with a banner, and the family was extremely grateful to Xu Qiu.

But it took Xu Qiu a while to remember this family.

In fact, the other party's surgery was not too dangerous, but it just looked and sounded unbelievable. After the surgery was performed casually, the patient was discharged from the hospital after three days of care.

"Take good care of yourself."

Recalling the other party's medical history, Xu Qiu gave a gentle reminder.

Hearing this, the high school girl's eyes turned red, and she suddenly clenched her fists and said, "Thank you, Doctor Xu, I will do it!"

Xu Qiu nodded, and just as he was about to speak, Shi Lian rushed in.

"What's going on?" He looked over quickly.

The one person who has made Shi Lian so anxious recently, unless there is a new critically ill patient in the emergency department, is undoubtedly Tian Ling.