What always confuses me is the fact that they save his kidney but in Season 15 he said something about how he only had one kidney after the attack or something like that and it was destroyed by an infection, leading to his need for a new kidney at the end of the show.
In All in the Family, You see them restore circulation to one of his kidneys after the stabbing damages the artery that feed the kidney. We hear that the kidney pinks up, essentially that the tissue isn’t dead and has blood flow now, but the doesn’t mean function was not compromised in the kidney. The artery was damaged during the stabbing, which likely reduced blood flow to the organ. Carter was on the floor a long time bleeding, and the blood flow to the kidney is restored only after treatment in the ER and midway through the surgery after the procedure on the bowel but before they find and fix the hematoma in the spine. That likely meant the kidney did not receive enough blood for hours, and kidneys are sensitive finicky organ (in contrast the liver is much more durable). It is likely the function of the organ was fully or partially compromised due to not getting enough blood or other side effects of the stabbing.
What always confuses me is the fact that they save his kidney but in Season 15 he said something about how he only had one kidney after the attack or something like that and it was destroyed by an infection, leading to his need for a new kidney at the end of the show.
They saved his kidney so he was only living with one. Then he went to work and live in Africa where I think he got an infection.
@@ChristinaGrivas-um4ry They saved the damaged one not the infected one.
In All in the Family, You see them restore circulation to one of his kidneys after the stabbing damages the artery that feed the kidney. We hear that the kidney pinks up, essentially that the tissue isn’t dead and has blood flow now, but the doesn’t mean function was not compromised in the kidney. The artery was damaged during the stabbing, which likely reduced blood flow to the organ. Carter was on the floor a long time bleeding, and the blood flow to the kidney is restored only after treatment in the ER and midway through the surgery after the procedure on the bowel but before they find and fix the hematoma in the spine. That likely meant the kidney did not receive enough blood for hours, and kidneys are sensitive finicky organ (in contrast the liver is much more durable). It is likely the function of the organ was fully or partially compromised due to not getting enough blood or other side effects of the stabbing.
@@maggiemakgill Thank you for that information. It's nice to have all the details.
Yeahhhh!
episode?
Season 15 episode 17
@@whump8610 thanks
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