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Sanctus ,
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What the fuck

webghost0101 ,

They dont explain it though.

I presume the kidneys dies out on its own and the cells get recycled by the body?

Brkdncr ,

Nah, it’s still there just not doing anything. If it’s not infected or anything wrong beside it being lazy there’s no need to remove it.

ipha ,

Removing it is more traumatic to the body, so they just leave it in.

Plopp ,

I wonder how they found that out.

  • Hey Nick, where did you put the old kidney I can’t see it anywhere?

  • Uh-oh… It’s… I’m sure it’s fine, listen I have to run to a meeting, just keep an eye on this patient.

Nougat ,

If they took it out, it would leave a big cavity that they would have to fill with beans.

ComicalMayhem ,

mmm Beans

EpicMuch ,

one large mean green kidney bean??

threelonmusketeers ,

If they filled the space with kidney beans, then they’d have even more kidneys!

jelloeater85 ,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

Oh no, we’re not starting that shit again!

tyrant ,

Why are you red?

Blaster_M ,

red sus

Lucidlethargy ,

Yeah, but if you get the right beans type, it can form a new kidney and then you’ll have two kidneys again after the transplant. If you get it wrong, then there’s a chance of rejection, though. So most doctors don’t use beans.

Tylerdurdon ,

You can never have too many kidneys.

noodlejetski ,

they don’t completely disappear, but they do die and shrivel up.

hperrin ,

“And such plentiful organs!”

aport ,

I AM ZIM!

imaqtpie , (edited )
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

You gotta be kidneying me

Plopp ,

I know what you bean.

(sorry I have a cold)

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yup, it blew my mind when I first learned about it.

Back in high school, I did a kind of medical jobs class that supposedly prepped us for entry into medical training, to help decide if or was right for us, and which fields we might go into. There was more than that, but that was the basic idea.

The last year of the class was going out and playing tag-along on various jobs. Nursing, radiology, pathology, dentistry, whatever.

One of the things we got to go to was a transplant unit. Finding out that kidneys (usually) stay in was kinda crazy because the obvious thing is that they’re diseased, maybe dying, so why would you leave them in, wouldn’t that cause trouble down the road?

Blew all our little minds lol

Snowclone ,

Afaik it’s a situation where the less things you have to do the better, even if the only benifit is shortening the length of surgery by minute or more, it’s probably saving lives leaving it in as a protocol.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Pretty much, that’s the explanation given back then.

Iirc it was phrased more that the risks of complications from removing the less healthy ones and all the blood supply issues that go with that complicat e the surgery in both time and possible unwanted outcomes. So damn near exactly what you said :)

There’s times it has to be done, but to the best of my knowledge, the majority of cases, the kidneys aren’t doing anything bad, they’re just not working right.

Nurse_Robot ,

If I have any take-aways from nursing school, it’s that kidneys are fucking bullies. Your kidneys will demand blood even if it means starving your brain; kidneys above all else. Selfish bastards

frank ,

Not really related, but of a similar vein:

A buddy of mine is an ER surgeon in a rough city in the US. Says that they usually don’t take out bullets from people, just leave them unless they’re causing a problem specifically. It blows my mind that the human body is just fine with it

baldingpudenda ,

The body:
the hell is this?

Checks it out

Well I’m not dealing with it. I’m just gonna mark/wall it off.

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