Hedgepath wrote...
*emerges from
shadows*..............Just have to cut and paste below from 4 months ago
to clarify how CF would NOT be considered a differential (meaning
viable, realistic) diagnosis for Drell race. KS cannot be compared to
CF, not realistic nor similiar at all. Sorry for
length............*returns to shadows*
My opinion from a
Pulmonary Medicine/CardioThoracic Surgery/Epidemiology background is:
Since Kepral's is a bacteria, native to Kahje, where Drell are exposed
to it, and get it by inhaling it in the moist, humid air, that is
causing death to Drell because it has become resistant to the known
antibx treatment of the MEverse of 2183. So, treatment options now are:
#1 - a discovery of a new antibx, #2 - using 2 or more antibx, #3 - a
combo of nanotech and several antibx, #4 - Lung lavage (washing the
affected lung with a strong antibx solution or a combo of several antibx
solutions and medications), #5 - Translate Prothean info to see if
they had discovered a cure....... The LotSB new antibx failed, so I'd
try the other options. We've compared it to nocardia, mycobacterium
tuberculosis (TB), and recently, after spending time in an Infectious
Disease research lab for 6 weeks - vancomycin resistant staphylococci
aureus (VRSA). There have only been 11 cases of VRSA in the US in 8
years, but it is an infection that is resistant to our "biggest and most
potent" antibx (vancomycin), and is VERY bad..........It's symptoms are
sometimes similar to Keprals Syndrome/Thane. However, as resilient and
smart humans, in this day and age, we discovered that older
antibiotics, in combination, can cure VRSA, in most cases. So, until a
new antibx is discovered, this is what we are doing in this century. In
the MEverse of 2183, with Hanar, Mordin, multiple other species and
their inhabitant "scientists', along with nanotech, it should be easier
for them. I mean, they have the tech to bring dessicated spaced Shep
back, but can't find an antibx, or a working comdo of things to kill a
bacteria??? We CANNOT bring people back from that kind of dead in 2011,
so they have the knowledge, resources and tech.....
Lung
transplant, even replacing the 42% (or is it 47%) affected side, would
not be a treatment option for just some of these reasons (I've only
listed 6): The transplanted lung would get infected with KS quickly -
"seeding" of bacteria into healthy areas from the infected lung (when
they pull it out of the chest) would occur, potentially infecting other
uninfected areas - the infection has already spread to Thane's heart and
other organs, so his risk of these organs failing while "under the
knife" is high (he'd "die on the table") -rejection drugs decrease the
immune system (responsible for fighting off infections), so he is at
risk of getting another kind of infection while on these drugs, and the
Kepral bacteria in his body would spread faster, and his symptoms would
develop quicker, and be worse) - risk of stroke is high, in this kind of
surgery (Thane is green, but do you really want him to be a
"vegetable"???) - total recovery from a lung transplant is rare (none
of the patients lead the same life they led before, or can do the things
they used to do before). In all my years of clinical practice, I have
NOT seen a lung transplant performed on a patient with a bacterial
infection such as TB, nocardia or VRSA.........
OK - end of the technical stuff.
The
bottom line is - would you want Thane to have the transplant (if he
lived through it, and wasn't paralyzed by a stroke) so he could sit
around and wait for you someplace safe?(after the 3-6 months of recovery
& rehab). Since his transplanted lung would be sensitive to
atmospheric pressure changes, he'd literally be a "desk jockey". He
could never go on missions, nothing "dangerous" or potentially
"contagious". He'd be alive, waiting for you, on some safe
planet.........That's why I feel this option is a no-brainer, lousy ,
cop-out for Thane. Look how long Shep was outta circulation, after
all!!!!
I say NNNOOOOOOO, .....go out inna "blaze of glory",
saving the Universe with Shep, or find a cure, but that's me. AND, I
think it's Thane too, that's why he hasn't put himself on the list
(let's not go there as to where BW got the idea to write lung tx in as
an option!)
DONE..............................
This entire argument is completely null and void. WHY?
becauase we don't do simply confirmed research quoted by Bioware STAFF. Kerpal's
for the very last time, IS NOT A BACTERIA. Why isn't it a
bacteria? Because it's Cystic fibrosis where is very clearly a genetic
disorder. All drell as susceptible to the disease, others are more likely to
develop it because the disease is based on a genetic mutation. Not a bacteria.
A lung transplant, which came from another healthy drell who has not be exposed
to conditions that would cause kerpals, could not "cure" him, but it
would extend his life indefinitely .
Furthermore, the disease takes place in a sci fi world where
someone has been brought back to life months after their death, someone who
fell in bits in [pieces from the vacuum ./ sub zero temperatures of space,
THROUGH A Planet’s ATMOSPHERE (omg it's ridiculously hot) and was exposed to
alien life forms, creatures who could have come a eaten parts of the body etc.
AND STILL LIVES TWO YEARS LATER.
You want him to die. That’s fine. But don’t debase our
arguments that we want him to live with your opinion and logic you made up in
your head by ignoring basic facts about the game. Finally, argument invalid
because, I’ll say it again, KERPALS IS A BASED ON CYSTIC FIBROSIS. NOT
BACTERIAL AT ALL.
Thank you.
Modifié par Plakto, 31 juillet 2011 - 09:10 .
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Indeed, this topic must be thoroughly explored from all... ahem... angles. 
