"It's been half a month. Even in animals, the therapeutic effect of the artificial kidney is very obvious."
Dean Liu was sitting in his office, looking at the experimental report on the computer, and couldn't help but be filled with emotion.
Since the first day of the pig artificial kidney experiment, he has continued to conduct a number of animal experiments.
There are currently two control groups in the artificial kidney experiment at the experimental center. The test group is 6 pigs equipped with artificial kidneys, and the 6 pigs in the control group receive conventional dialysis treatment.
Two weeks later, the research team's report showed that the pigs that received artificial kidney treatment were in good condition, eating and drinking without abnormalities, and all looked lively and vigorous, not much different from healthy pigs.
As for the pigs in the control group that received routine dialysis, one-third of the pigs had kidney necrosis and had died suddenly.
Although the remaining 4 animals are still fine, the situation is not optimistic. Serum creatinine and urea nitrogen are still maintained at a relatively high level, and they need to rely on dialysis to survive.
As for the condition of the pigs, it is even worse. It is obvious at a glance that they are sick pigs. They cannot pass the quarantine at the slaughterhouse and can only be stamped with a red seal and destroyed.
"When the artificial kidneys are removed, I doubt whether the kidney functions of these six pigs will return to normal."
Dean Liu thought happily, then went back, took out his mobile phone, and opened a WeChat group.
This is his college classmate group, and they are either veterinarians or researchers in animal medicine.
Everyone seemed to be chatting animatedly, and new messages popped up one after another.
He didn't look carefully at everyone's chat content. He just scrolled through it and posted some pictures of bouncing pigs wearing artificial kidneys.
Old Liu: "Haha, let's take a look. This is Sanqing's artificial kidney. The animal experiments were very successful. Can't you tell that these two pigs have acute renal failure?"
"The last two pictures are of the control group who underwent routine dialysis. There was no way to save them and they were just waiting to die."
"Comparing the two groups, doesn't it look obvious?"
"Sanqing is so awesome. If it is used on clinical patients, it can save everything from uremia to renal failure."
After he finished these words happily, he realized that the whole group fell into an eerie silence.
Dean Liu suddenly became unhappy and felt that his love for sharing had been let down.
"What are you doing? Why don't you say a few words about such good news?"
After several seconds, someone started to speak, but the words they said made him confused.
"Huahua is finally saved."
"You can give it a try and treat a dead horse as a live doctor."
"Looking at the condition of these two pigs, they should be able to be saved."
"There's nothing we can do anyway. We can't just wait for Huahua to die."
"They are all kidney failure. The same disease can definitely be cured."
Dean Liu was confused and couldn't help but send a message.
"What are you talking about? Who is Huahua?"
Only then did someone explain the situation to him.
"Hua Hua is a giant panda that Lao Hu is treating recently. It seems that he also suffered from renal failure. He underwent routine dialysis, but the clinical symptoms were not relieved. He also developed peritonitis and ascites in his stomach. He is afraid that he will not survive long. Lao Hu is I’m worried.”
"Yes, before you spoke, we were thinking of ideas for Old Hu."
"Lao Liu is still very good. He has good ideas as soon as he comes."
"@老胡, call Lao Liu quickly."
Dean Liu suddenly realized that when these people saw that pigs could use artificial kidneys, they wanted to try it on giant pandas with kidney failure to see if they could be saved.
"The giant panda, a national treasure, has never been tried before, and I don't know what to do if it's not rescued. I won't be held responsible."
Dean Liu was muttering in his heart. Just as he was hesitating, the phone suddenly rang.
At first glance, it turned out to be Lao Hu.
After the call was connected, Lao Hu's hoarse voice immediately came from the other end of the phone.
"Brother, is the picture you posted real? Are all the pigs with renal failure in your animal experimental center really rescued?"
When Dean Liu heard Lao Hu's tone, he was very anxious and quickly told the story about the artificial kidney from beginning to end.
"That's it. Brother, your business is my business. I am happy to help. Mainly this artificial kidney. It really is not my thing and I have no decision-making power."
"Also, this artificial kidney seems to have been tested on dogs and pigs. I can't say whether it will be effective on giant pandas."
"If you really want to give it a try, I can help you contact the person in charge of the Sanqing project. I can't guarantee whether it will work or not."
Lao Hu is also an old man. He immediately understood the meaning of his words and said quickly: "It's okay, thank you, brother. Although the giant panda is a national treasure, it is critically ill now. I have no choice but to live and die." Horse doctor.”
"As long as you are willing to help spread the word, I will be grateful. It would be best if you can save him. Even if you can't save him, I will still appreciate your kindness."
Dean Liu nodded and said, "Don't worry, Sanqing will definitely take action. Just wait for the good news."
"By the way, it would be best if you could describe the giant panda Huahua, or the beggar Huahua, in detail, and then take some pictures for me."
"Okay, no problem, I'll send it right away."
After a while, Lao Hu sent the case information of the giant panda Huahua.
"Age 7 years old, lung infection caused renal failure. After examination, there were no abnormalities in the liver, gallbladder, spleen, and heart. There was 100 to 200 ml of urine in the bladder. The left kidney was atrophic, and the right kidney was slightly larger, with a 3 cm long cyst and a small amount. ascites."
"Antibiotics were administered and the lung infection was suppressed, but the kidney failure was getting worse."
In the picture, a fluffy giant panda is lying on its back on a special hospital bed with its eyes slightly closed, its abdomen twitching slightly, looking uncomfortable.
Two staff members waited quietly beside it, one stroking its head to comfort it, and the other gently pressing its right front paw where the IV was being dripped.
Dean Liu felt inexplicably sad when he saw the national treasure looking so weak.
He quickly found Ding Mian's phone number and dialed it.
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Sichuan Province, Giant Panda Base.
"Huahua, if you hold on just a little longer, I've found a way to save you."
"When the artificial kidney arrives, you will definitely get better."
Hu Zhengqiang stood in front of the hospital bed, with tears in his eyes, caressing the giant panda Huahua's furry head, and said silently in his heart.
He has been treating animals at the base for many years, and his favorite is the national treasure giant panda.
Especially Huahua, whom he has watched since childhood, and has deep feelings for her.
Huahua started to fall ill a week ago, and has barely eaten since then. She relies on milk from a syringe every day to maintain her body's basic needs.
Its current constitution is quite weak, and it doesn't even have the strength to stand up and go out for activities, so it can only lie in bed sickly.
In order to add nutrition to Huahua and improve her disease resistance, he gave Huahua an intravenous drip in the past two days.
The lung infection was under control, but the resulting kidney failure left him unable to do anything.
After all, he is just a veterinarian.
It cannot deal with serious and complicated diseases.
At this time, there was a sudden noise outside.
Then a doctor in a white coat hurried in.
Hu Zhengqiang hurriedly stepped forward and smiled: "Hello, Director Cui, I'm really sorry to trouble you again."
The visitor was Director Cui of the Intensive Care Department of West China Hospital. He rushed over after learning that Huahua's condition had become serious.
As a nationally protected animal, giant pandas have a very high priority for medical treatment.
Director Cui came to Huahua, took out a stethoscope, and began to auscultate the heart and lung conditions.
After listening, he began to ask: "How is Huahua's body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and urinary and defecation conditions?"
Hu Zhengqiang explained all the situations one by one.
Director Cui couldn't help but frowned, thought for a moment, and said.
"Well, I suggest padding a section of the hospital bed with a double-layered wooden board to make Huahua's head slightly higher, so that it can sleep more comfortably and minimize the pressure on the heart and lungs caused by lying flat."
"In addition, I saw that it was panting a bit heavily when breathing. It would be best to inject oxygen, increase the oxygen volume, and use an oxygen mask to directly aim at its mouth to deliver oxygen."
Hu Zhengqiang quickly agreed and asked the staff to run out and bring an oxygen concentrator.
When the oxygen mask was put on Huahua's face, his breathing gradually became quieter.
Director Cui relaxed his brows a little and continued.
"I see that its heart rate is fast, its blood pressure is too high, and its urination is abnormal. You should slow down the infusion speed appropriately and inject it with some urinary drugs to maintain its basic metabolism."
Hu Zhengqiang wrote them down one by one, then brought furosemide and injected it into Huahua.
Director Cui nodded and said with a serious face: "The biggest problem right now is to get Huahua to urinate normally. As long as Huahua urinates normally, it means that the body's metabolic function is not completely disordered, and there is still room for rescue."
"After the furosemide injection, some cough-relieving, anti-inflammatory, and nutritional supplements will be injected to enhance Huahua's disease resistance."
"At the same time, regular physical examinations are performed every day to accurately understand the development and changes of the disease."
Hu Zhengqiang stopped talking and hesitated for a moment before asking: "It can't urinate in the first place. If it is given so much nutrient solution, it will have more water in its body. What if it still can't urinate?"
Director Cui muttered: "You have a small animal dialysis machine here. If you really don't have urine, you can only go to the dialysis machine."
Hu Zhengqiang smiled bitterly and said: "We used a small animal dialysis machine to perform hemodialysis on Huahua twice before. The effect was not very good, and the kidney function did not improve. Let's go for peritoneal dialysis. He has ascites and is not suitable for it."
Director Cui suddenly looked confused and said after a while: "Then this problem is a bit difficult to solve."
"But no matter what, you have to go to the dialysis machine. It doesn't matter if you keep doing it. Just maintain your life first."
"By the way, let's connect with the experts in the hospital and hold an expert consultation. Let's discuss it together and see how to adopt the most effective treatment plan."
The two immediately went to the next room and remotely connected with the hospital's kidney experts to discuss the treatment plan.
However, in the face of Huahua's failure to urinate, experts had no good solution and could only adopt a treatment plan of promoting urination and dialysis.
Hu Zhengqiang listened to the doctors' discussion, his eye circles gradually turning red.
Hearing the expert's tone, Huahua seemed to be hopeless, and he suddenly felt sad.
While I was feeling sad, suddenly a staff member rushed in and shouted loudly.
"Dr. Hu, someone came to you and said they were sending an artificial kidney, but you couldn't get through on the phone."
"Artificial kidney?" Hu Zhengqiang stood up and took out his mobile phone. Sure enough, he had four or five missed calls.
"Why are you here so soon?" He was surprised and happy for a moment, and hurried out.
Director Cui and the experts on the other side of the screen looked at each other for a moment, not knowing what was going on.
He had no choice but to say hello to the expert and hurried out.
When he looked outside, Hu Zhengqiang was holding a refrigerator in his hand, looking like he had found a treasure.
There was a strange young man standing next to him. He kept talking and seemed to be giving instructions.
Hu Zhengqiang listened carefully and nodded.
Director Cui walked over and asked in a low voice: "Old Hu, what are you doing?"
When Hu Zhengqiang saw that it was him, he was overjoyed and said repeatedly: "Director Cui, that's great. You happen to be here. By the way, you can do general surgery, right?"
Director Cui nodded without knowing why.
A smile appeared on Hu Zhengqiang's face: "Then the external surgery of the artificial kidney will be left to you."
Director Cui was confused and said: "Old Hu, what's an artificial kidney? I don't understand."
Hu Zhengqiang opened the refrigerator in his hand, pointed to a rectangular metal box inside, and said with a smile.
"This is an external bioartificial kidney that Sanqing has just successfully developed. You can use it as a 24-hour portable hemodialysis machine. Animal experiments have been done on pigs, and the results are very good."
Having said this, he seemed to remember something. He took out his mobile phone with his left hand, found some photos sent by Dean Liu, and handed them over.
"You see, the thing on this pig is an artificial kidney. They also have acute renal failure, but after half a month of being equipped with this thing, they still look very healthy."
At this time, the strange guy next to him interrupted with a smile.
"Hello, Director Cui, I am the medical representative of Sanqing Company. I heard that we need help here, so I flew over from Kunming with an artificial kidney. Our bioartificial kidney is much more effective than conventional dialysis. Hope this helps you.”
Director Cui looked at the picture in his hand and said without raising his head: "Nice to meet you, nice to meet you. I didn't expect that Sanqing actually developed a bioartificial kidney, and it is so much better than a dialysis machine. It's really amazing. .”
The medical representative handed over a beautiful manual with a smile and said: "This is a detailed introduction to the artificial kidney. You can take a look and have a deeper understanding of the high-tech we use."
Director Cui took the manual and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't take his eyes off it.
At this time, Hu Zhengqiang had already set up the surgery scene next door.
Director Cui was amazed after reading the manual, and immediately started a lively chat with the medical representative.
"It does look good, but we doctors still have to see actual treatment effects before it counts."
"Of course, you will see the results tomorrow after the surgery."
The medical representative smiled slightly and seemed confident in his product.
Half an hour later, Hu Zhengqiang made preoperative preparations and took Director Cui to the operating room.
For Director Cui, everything was very simple and the operation was completed in just ten minutes.
The artificial kidney was tied to Huahua's waist and began to perform its duties faithfully.
Next, it depends on the working effect of the artificial kidney.
The next day, Hu Zhengqiang, who was supposed to go to work at 8:30, arrived at the base at 6 o'clock in the morning.
He had something on his mind and couldn't let go of Huahua's safety, so he couldn't sleep well all night.
When I walked into the ward, I saw Huahua, her white head tilted, sleeping soundly on her back.
On the chair next to him, the breeder, who had always been inseparable, was lying on the table, fast asleep.
Hu Zhengqiang breathed a sigh of relief, tiptoed to the hospital bed, picked up the urine bag and took a look.
It was heavy to start with, and the bag was full of urine.
He was immediately ecstatic and almost shouted.
I finally suppressed my excitement and walked out quietly, not daring to make a sound.
When he came to the yard outside and saw the greenery in front of him, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and looked up to the sky and laughed.
Smiling and laughing, two lines of hot tears suddenly rolled down from the corners of his eyes unexpectedly.
(End of chapter)
