HCV Contagious after SVR

[hoblonggotta]

Are you still  contagious after tx if SVR..

[MagTX]

The majority of organ donors are over the age of 50, here's the link.

http://organdonor.gov/about/statistics.html

Thanks for posting Can-do. You always have some good stuff stored away!

[MagTX]

Really?
I just renewed my drivers license by mail and checked off that I do not want to donate my organs since I'm not SVR. I will have to look into changing that on my DL, because I DO want to be an organ donar, I just always thought that wasn't possible, given that we can never donate blood because of pos. antibodies..
Do they still use organs if someone's over the age of 50, or what is the cut off?

[can-do-man]

tbd1046 is correct, from our own expert Hepatologist here at MedHelp.


Douglas Dieterich, MD
  
Jul 03, 2008
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To: Steve2727

You cannot donate blood, but you can donate organs. Seems silly but that is the way it is done. Many people are offered HCV + livers if they have HCV already and there is no real issue with it.
Donate your organs! We should all be doing that and with the Holiday weekend coming up all of us who can should donate blood! DTD

[still_above_dirt]

That's an interesting point. I guess the organ bank isn't going to hold onto donated organs, healthy or not, for very long since they won't have much of a shelf life if not used immediately, so I guess they wouldn't have to worry so much about administrative bookkeeping issues as they would with longer-term blood product storage. But I am actually surprised that they would take HCV-Ab-tainted organs, with as litigious as today's society seems to be.

[tbd1046]

FYI. If one has HCV they can still register to be an organ donor.  One with HCV can donte to someone with HCV.  Your are asked if you are willing to receive the organ at the time of the offer. By doing this you will be extending your life so that you may treat at a later time.

[still_above_dirt]

No. You'll still test positive for antibodies whether you have virus or not. And they screen based on the presence or absence of antibodies, not viral load. Organ donation is a no-go for the same reason, too.

[penn1023]

Are you able to give  blood again?

[asle]

SVR means the virus is no longer active in your system. Gone daddy gone.
But you can be re-infected. And THAT would be a bugger!
Stay healthy, stay clean, and be safe.

[Dee1956]

Hello there! Hector is right. Once you are SVR you are considered cured.
Good luck,
Dee

[HectorSF]

SVR is durable. Patients which SVR are considered cured. Therefore you can't infect someone which something you haven't got.

Hector