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Post by colormist on Jan 5, 2010 13:10:35 GMT -5
I've been mulling over this concept for a while. If HFIers had a liver transplant would we then be capable of consuming fructose?
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Post by charlie on Jan 5, 2010 13:39:43 GMT -5
I don't think sadly this would work as it your body's inability to produce the necessary enzyme to break the fructose down in the liver so whoevers liver you had it still wouldn't be able to do the job. great idea though
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Post by CJSculpts on Jan 5, 2010 22:13:24 GMT -5
Still wondering why there is no enzyme replacement...
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Post by CJSculpts on Jan 5, 2010 22:15:28 GMT -5
I have been wondering about a full-bodyectomy... ; D
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Post by CJSculpts on Jan 5, 2010 23:30:30 GMT -5
Meanie! ; }
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Post by Tammy on Jan 6, 2010 0:46:01 GMT -5
Regina's Dr told me that a transplant wouldn't work for the reasons stated earlier, and the enzyme that is missing would basically be digested as a protein if taken orally. The only "hypothetically" answer would be to somehow inject it directly into the liver, which probably still wouldn't get to where it needs to be, nor work the way it needs to work.
Of course we all know how all the Dr's know everything there is to know about HFI. lol.
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Post by elilly on Jan 8, 2010 21:32:49 GMT -5
A liver transplant would not work but a stem cell transplant would  |
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Post by CJSculpts on Jan 9, 2010 19:29:48 GMT -5
Whaaaaaaaaaaa?!?!?  How so?!? A stem cell transplant does not change your DNA or else recipients would morph into their donors. Unless I am missing something??? I was my father's stem cell & marrow donor. If he had not passed away from complications from the radiation, I then would have given him HFI if he was not just a carrier?? |
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Post by elilly on Jan 11, 2010 5:33:16 GMT -5
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How so?!?