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Related: About this forumHeche family kept her alive to donate her organs
If she was a drug user, can her organs be suitable?
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Heche family kept her alive to donate her organs (Original Post)
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Aug 2022
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bronxiteforever
(9,580 posts)1. Impossible to answer for us.
Specifics are needed such as exact medical tests on the specific organs. Also you would need to know the damage to the organs due to the crash and fire.
There are several other organs that can be harvested such as corneas.
Warpy
(113,131 posts)2. You're thinking in terms of heart and liver
but bone, cartilage, intact skin, and all sorts of other tissue can be harvested and used.
They kept her only technically alive, a ventilator forcing oxygen into her damaged lungs and her circulation propped up by drugs. She was gone, the accident was horrific and not survivable.
Mosby
(17,663 posts)3. The family is not providing specifics.
Anne Heche will be taken off life support Sunday, TMZ has learned, because organ recipients have been identified and surgeons are ready to remove and then implant.
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We're told Anne will be taken off life support early Sunday afternoon ... after which the procedure will begin.
Sources connected to Anne confirm to TMZ multiple organs will be transplanted, although they choose not to reveal specifics.
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We're told Anne will be taken off life support early Sunday afternoon ... after which the procedure will begin.
Sources connected to Anne confirm to TMZ multiple organs will be transplanted, although they choose not to reveal specifics.
https://amp.tmz.com/2022/08/14/anne-heche-organ-donor-off-life-support-dead-transplant/