Chapter 763 Chairman's Death

Wen Liang: "He didn't say anything specific, but he mentioned that this time Mrs. Xie's liver was to be transplanted to KL Chairman James, so he might start from there."

Fu Zheng understood.

Yan Huai's plan was very thorough. On Tuesday afternoon, the media released a rumor that James, chairman of KL Group, was critically ill.

This was not what James' family had expected. According to the plan, the liver transplant should have gone smoothly.

Unexpectedly, shortly after the liver transplant, James suddenly fell into a coma, developed coagulation dysfunction, hyperkalemia, and then multiple organ failure, and was rushed to the emergency room for rescue.

As the matter concerned the entire group, several directors rushed over and decided to suppress the matter after discussion. However, some media still got the news and swarmed over like locusts, blocking the outside of the hospital waiting for news.

On Wednesday morning, after more than ten hours of rescue, James was finally pronounced dead.

The cause of death was hyperacute rejection of the liver transplant, which occurred because the transplanted liver was incompatible with the recipient.

However, this time they had prepared for the liver source for a long time. It had the same blood type as James and was a perfect match, making it the most suitable candidate for transplantation.

How come it doesn't match?

James' son quickly figured out the root cause - the liver source was delayed on the way, and when it arrived it was almost past the golden transplant time. If he did another matching and waited for the results 24 hours later, he was afraid that the liver source would no longer be usable.

So, when the doctor came to ask him, he felt that there was no need to re-match, so he let the doctor perform the operation directly.

The problem lies with the liver source.

He angrily called Coleman, but Coleman insisted that there was no problem with the liver source. He had personally performed the operation on Xie Shu, placed the liver in a container specially used to store the liver, and handed it over to KL personnel for transportation. There must have been a problem on the way.

But he no longer has the time and energy to investigate the matter.

The chairman of KL died suddenly, and the shares under James' name were divided into three parts according to his will and given to his three children.

The board of directors needs to elect a new chairman.

James' son wanted to run for election, and the other directors were unwilling to miss this opportunity, so they started to work privately.

Although there is competition among KL's senior management, there is a high degree of consensus on one point: the news of James' death will be announced after the smooth handover of the group's senior management.

Although I know that I will most likely not be able to hide it from the media that smells meat, I still have to take some measures.

Sure enough, two hours after James' death was announced, the media announced the news.

KL is a monopoly enterprise in the medical industry, and James is a well-known entrepreneur. The news of his death attracted the attention of many people in society.

The media outlet that announced James' death then reported it again, saying that hospital medical staff revealed that James was suffering from FHL and had just undergone a liver transplant two days before his death, and died of a hyperacute rejection reaction.

This is the first time that media reports have revealed that James suffers from this inherited immunodeficiency disease.

FHL has always been one of the most confidential matters of the Morenson family and must never be disclosed to outsiders.

This is also one of the reasons why the Morenson family pays special attention to genetic screening, but still has children with diseases born.

James' youngest brother is in good health and has a romantic personality. He has had one girlfriend after another and has never married. However, he has three children, one of whom unfortunately inherited FHL. His mother wanted to marry James's younger brother and gave birth to the child secretly. Because she only had basic prenatal checkups during pregnancy, there was no special genetic screening.

Although this disease is dangerous, as long as stem cell transplantation is performed, the patient can basically return to normal life. For wealthy people, this is not a difficult task, and for the chairman of a medical group, it is even less of a problem.

If it was just James suffering from this disease, people wouldn't think too much about it, but considering the cause of James' death, people feel something is wrong.

Hyperacute rejection reaction, which is caused by liver transplantation with mismatched antibodies.

The incidence of hyperacute rejection in standard matched liver transplant recipients is 0.2%-0.5%.

The probability is too low and there are reasons for it to happen. Real-time monitoring and recipient pretreatment under adequate medical conditions can reduce the probability to zero.

Keller Hospital in New York was able to do this, but something went wrong, causing the hospital's top leader to die from this low-probability event?

Or did the hospital use the wrong liver and transplant a liver with mismatched antibodies to James?

Or does the hospital not do liver matching for transplantation?

Or should the transplant still be performed if the matching is unsuccessful?

Regardless of the reason, New York Keller Hospital has an unshirkable responsibility.

The purpose of private hospitals is to provide patients with more timely and comfortable treatment. Patients are the highest leaders of their own hospitals and should receive the highest treatment. However, such a major medical accident occurred in the hospital, which made everyone question the attitude and strength of Keller Hospital.

With various forces fanning the flames, all hospitals under KL have been affected in varying degrees. New York Keller Hospital, which was already facing a crisis of trust, was the first to be hit. The number of customers making appointments for examinations and surgeries has dropped sharply, and the number of complaints has increased sharply.

The situation of Keller branches in some cities, which are already struggling to operate and are barely supported by the KL brand, has been made even worse.

Faced with overwhelming public doubts, KL's public relations department and New York Keller Hospital hastily issued a vague joint statement, saying that the media reports were rumors and that some people with ulterior motives were making groundless speculations, and that Keller Hospital's medical staff would not disclose patient privacy at will.

"...We reserve the right to pursue legal action against the relevant media and individuals. At the same time, we urge all sectors of society to respect the deceased and understand the feelings of KL Group and its family during this difficult time."

However, neither party gave any explanation for the cause of James' death, and seemed to be trying to cover it up.

Firstly, the KL board of directors was embroiled in a fierce struggle over the chairmanship, leaving no one free to resolve the matter, and those below them were hesitant to make decisions on their own. Secondly, the matter was a thorny one; a mishandled one would be a significant blow to KL.

This attitude of avoiding the main issue and talking about other things has become ironclad evidence of guilty conscience and an attempt to cover up the matter in the eyes of the public, especially medical colleagues and journalists who are paying attention to this matter.

Some people in the industry had heard about KL’s illegal human experiments a long time ago and immediately guessed that there was something wrong with the source of the livers.

Even without Yan Huai's guidance, people with a keen sense of smell sensed the opportunity and guided the media to trace the source and try every means to peel off a layer of skin from KL.

Then, another media outlet revealed that James is an extremely rare Kidd-negative blood type in the world. There are very few people with this blood type, and even fewer people can successfully match James.

So where does the liver come from?