"Qiuye, don't worry, wait here for a while. I'll take you to see Li Chu after his meeting."
Ding Qiunan didn't know what to say. She couldn't just tell people that the disease was completely incurable.
However, she vaguely remembered that her husband had told her that the only way to treat kidney failure might be a kidney transplant.
The Department of Surgery at Peking Union Medical College Hospital once collaborated with the medical school on this research project, but it was shelved due to a special period. I don't know if they have come up with anything since then.
Ran Qiuye sat there with a sorrowful expression, and Ding Qiunan felt a little sorry for her.
Their family has had such a rough time these past few years.
Since that special period began, one misfortune after another has befallen their family.
First, her parents were sent down to work on a farm, and then her younger sister was sent to the countryside to work as an educated youth. She was also suspended from her teaching job and forced to sweep floors.
Finally, her parents returned, her younger sister got into university, and she went back to work. But then her sister was diagnosed with kidney failure.
All the messy things that have happened over the years have turned a young and beautiful woman into an old maid who can't get married.
Li Chu's meeting didn't end until almost 11 o'clock. As soon as he returned to his office, Ding Qiunan brought Ran Qiuye over.
After listening to Ran Qiuye's description, he frowned and lowered his head in deep thought.
Seeing Li Chu's expression, Ran Qiuye's heart sank further. This place was her sister's last hope, but...
After a while, Li Chu looked up at Ran Qiuye and said, "Teacher Ran, according to what you said, Yezi's current situation is indeed not optimistic."
Okay, you go back first. If I'm free this afternoon, I'll go over and take a look. We can discuss the details then, okay?
"Thank you, Dr. Li."
"Don't mention it, we're friends."
After seeing Ran Qiuye off, Li Chu and Ding Qiunan walked inside.
"Li Chu, do you think Ye Zi can cure it?"
"In the middle and late stages of kidney failure, the only solution is a kidney transplant. And even if the surgery is successful, the postoperative period is the most crucial."
"You mean kidney transplant surgery is now possible?"
"Sure, Peking Union Medical College Hospital successfully performed two kidney transplants the year before last and last year. Nationwide, dozens of successful transplants have been performed. The question is the postoperative survival time."
"Is a kidney transplant not considered a success?"
"Postoperative acute rejection, accelerated rejection, and infection are all high-risk phases within six months. Even after six months, there are still long-term chronic rejection and other unknown risks."
"How are the patients recovering from those two surgeries performed at Peking Union Medical College Hospital?"
"The one I did the year before last is still here, but the one I did last year didn't even last six months."
"Li Chu, why didn't Peking Union Medical College Hospital recommend this surgery to Ran Qiuye's family?"
"This surgery is not yet mature, who would dare to recommend it, and where are the kidney donors?"
"Uh..." Ding Qiunan was at a loss for words; she didn't understand any of this.
"Alright, honey, don't think about it too much. I'll go over and take a look this afternoon."
"Alright then, you go first this afternoon, and I'll go see her again tonight."
After parting ways with Ding Qiunan, Li Chu returned to his office and stopped thinking about Ran Ziye's condition. He hadn't even seen the patient yet, so thinking about it was pointless.
Then I thought of the meeting of the dean's affairs just now. The new dean has been in office for a month. His surname is Shan, which is a very rare surname. This character is pronounced as shan in the fourth tone in surnames. Of course, these are not the important points.
The key point is that this new hospital director is another administrative director who doesn't understand medicine.
Dean Shan is still following the old ways and has not yet made any sweeping reforms to hospital affairs.
After all, Dean Liu had just retired, and he had only stepped down from his position at the hospital; he was still in charge of the health care team.
However, during the meeting just now, Dean Shan also revealed some information, namely that the General Hospital's level will be raised in the future, and it will be directly under the management of the General Logistics Department.
This is great news. If the level of the main hospital is raised, then the level of everyone present will also be raised.
Li Chu didn't care about this. What was the point of improving his skills? He was still doing the same job.
What he was concerned about was that if this upgrade was successful, the General Hospital would also have another name, the Military Medical College, to undertake the task of training high-level talents for the military, and at that time the General Hospital would be able to recruit graduate students.
Unlike now, it's just a continuing education institution.
After lunch, Li Chu had Xiao Tian drive him to Xiehe Hospital.
During his lunch break, he didn't go to see his old acquaintances, but went straight to the ward.
After reviewing some test results and taking her pulse himself, he led Ran Qiuye and her father, Professor Ran, to the car downstairs.
"Professor Ran, Teacher Ran, I believe the doctors from both hospitals have explained Ye Zi's condition to you these past few days, so I won't go into details. To be honest, traditional Chinese medicine doesn't have any special treatments for this kind of disease. The key issue is that it was discovered too late. If it had been discovered earlier, her quality of life could have been largely maintained through some treatments, but now..."
At this point, Li Chu shook his head.
"Sigh," Professor Ran sighed deeply. He had prepared himself mentally over the past few days. He was not disappointed with Li Chu's answer, but he felt that God had been too unfair to his family.
"Dr. Li, is there really no way at all?"
Ran Qiuye still asked, somewhat unwilling to give up.
Li Chu hesitated for a moment, but after thinking it over carefully, he still spoke up: "Well, it's not that there's absolutely no way out. Actually, a kidney transplant can extend Ye Zi's lifespan, but..."
The Gene Era
"A kidney transplant?" Professor Ran and Ran Qiuye exclaimed in unison in surprise.
“That’s right, it’s a kidney transplant.” Li Chu nodded: “Each of us has two kidneys, and if there is no decline in function, one kidney is enough to meet the normal metabolic and excretory needs of the human body.”
"Dr. Li, do you mean that both of my daughter's kidneys are now damaged and unusable, and that you doctors can remove both kidneys through surgery and then replace them with healthy ones?"
"Yes, that's roughly the idea."
Where can I get a kidney transplant?
Ran Qiuye disregarded the impropriety of men and women, sat in the back seat of the car, leaned over and grabbed Li Chu's arm, who was sitting in the passenger seat, and asked anxiously.
Li Chu, whose arm had been grabbed, paused for a moment, then subtly pulled his arm out of Ran Qiuye's grasp.
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