Owesilisa obe ngowokuqala ukufakelwa izinso zengulube ushone cishe ezinyangeni ezimbili ngemuva kokufakelwa.
URichard “Rick” Slayman, 62, uthole ukufakelwa izinso yengulube eyashintshwa ngofuzo ngesikhathi ehlinzwa amahora amane ngoMashi 16.
Ithimba labahlinzekiwe esibhedlela esitatimendeni lithe “lidabuke kakhulu” ngokushona kwakhe.
“Asinakho okukhombisa ukuthi kube umphumela wokufakelwa kwakhe kwakamuva,” kwengeza ithimba laseMassachusetts General Hospital.
Odokotela bathi uSlayman uzobonakala “njengesibani sethemba” ezigulini ezifakelwayo futhi “babonga kakhulu ngokumethemba nokuzimisela kwakhe ukuqhubekisela phambili umkhakha we-xenotransplantation”.
I-Xenotransplantation, ebandakanya ukufakelwa izitho zezilwane kubantu, ibonwe njengesixazululo esingaba khona sokuntuleka kwezitho ezitholakalayo zokufakelwa. Emazweni ayisishiyagalombili e-EU angamalungu enhlangano ye-Eurotransplant, ngokwesibonelo, bekunezitho ezilinganiselwa ku-6,800 ezabelwa iziguli ngo-2023, nokho ngasekupheleni konyaka, bekunabantu abacishe babe yi-13,500 abalindele ukufakelwa kabusha.
Amadoda amabili athole ukufakelwa inhliziyo yengulube ngempumelelo e-US womabili ashona ngemuva kokufakelwa. Bobabili bebengafanelekile ukufakelwa inhliziyo yomuntu.
“Izigidi zabantu emhlabeni wonke seziyazi indaba kaRick. Sizizwe – futhi sisazizwa – siduduzekile ngethemba anikeze iziguli ezilinde ngabomvu ukufakelwa kabusha, “kusho umndeni kaSlayman esitatimendeni ngoMgqibelo.
USlayman wayephila nesifo sezinso esisesigabeni sokugcina. Wafakelwa izinso kumuntu owanikela ngomuntu ngo-2018.
Ngemva kweminyaka emihlanu efakelwa izinso, kwadingeka aqale kabusha i-dialysis – esiza ukususa udoti egazini leziguli.
Izinkinga, nokho, zazidinga ukuya njalo esibhedlela okwaba nomthelela eqophelweni lempilo yakhe.
“Ngemuva kokufakelwa, uRick uthe esinye sezizathu esenze ukuthi enze le nqubo kwakuwukunikeza ithemba ezinkulungwaneni zabantu abadinga ukufakelwa ukuze baphile,” kusho umndeni wakhe esitatimendeni esishicilelwe yiMassachusetts General Hospital.
“U-Rick uwufezile lowo mgomo futhi ithemba lakhe nethemba kuyohlala kuze kube phakade. Ifa lakhe lizoba ngelikhuthaza iziguli, abacwaningi, kanye nabasebenzi bezempilo yonke indawo. Umndeni wethu ucela ubumfihlo benhlonipho njengoba sikhumbula umphefumulo omuhle kaRick wethu esimthandayo”.