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Die 12-Personen-Transplantation in “Grey’s Anatomy”
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Those 12 Persons-Domino-Transplantation-OP
- In which episode? Staffel 5, Episode 5
- What happens on “Grey’s Anatomy”? Bailey leads a team of surgical residents and interns in a “domino operation” in which 12 different kidney transplants are performed simultaneously in six operating rooms. A relative of a recipient donates his/her kidney to another of the 12 people, creating a circle of 12 people.
- The disease: Domino-Transplatations-OP
- The connection to real illness:
Although this feat had not been attempted before the episode aired, it did occur shortly followingward. In 2009, a year following the episode first aired, John Hopkins performed the first-ever “domino donor” kidney transplant with 12 patients. The transplant took place in multiple centers and states and included six donor-recipient pairs.
Aprils und Jacksons Baby hat Osteogenesis imperfecta in “Grey’s Anatomy”
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April and Jackson’s baby has osteogenesis imperfecta
- In which episode? Staffel 11, Episode 11
- What happens on “Grey’s Anatomy”? In one of the series’ most heartbreaking storylines, April and Jackson’s baby is born with the incurable disease osteogenesis imperfecta, which disrupts bone formation, making bones extremely brittle.
- The disease: Osteogenesis imperfecta
- The connection to real illness:
A friend of Sarah Drew that’s exactly what happened like the actress “The Hollywood Reporter” announced. She had the idea that April and Jackson’s baby might be born with this disease. “I was very happy regarding it because I thought it would be great to see a couple, where one person is a believer and the other is not, deal with a scenario like that and what a struggle that would be. copes and hopefully one not so black and white point of view would bid on it.”
A woman has spontaneous orgasms on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
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A woman has spontaneous orgasms
- In which episode? Staffel 2, Episode 18
- What happens on “Grey’s Anatomy”? One of Izzy’s patients has spontaneous and involuntary orgasms.
- The disease: Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (BECAUSE; German: persistent genital arousal disorder)
- The connection to real illness:
Zoanne Clack, one of the series’ executive producers, commented on this “Entertainment Weekly”that they stumbled upon the disease in a medical journal article.
In “Grey’s Anatomy” a girl feels no pain.
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A girl feels no pain
- In which episode? Staffel 3, Episode 3
- What happens on “Grey’s Anatomy”? A girl believes she has superpowers. To prove that she doesn’t feel any pain, she voluntarily lets classmates hit her in the stomach with a baseball bat.
- The disease: Die Autonomic hereditary sensory neuropathy type IV, HSAN4 for short, describes a very rare congenital neuropathy Loss of pain and temperature sensation. The disease is also called CIPA-Syndrome designated.
- The connection to real illness:
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Zoanne Clack confirmed that the story was inspired by a case in a medical article. After reading regarding this condition, the authors wanted to see how far the doctors might go in treating this little girl’s pain and the different ways she might be hurt to make a story out of it later.
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A man grows tree-like hands
- In which episode? Staffel 7, Episode 3
- What happens on “Grey’s Anatomy”? A patient suffers from an untreated case of HPV that causes him to grow tree-like warts.
- The disease: rather unclear
- The connection to real illness:
Clack confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that this was a real case. A boy out Bangladesh got treated for it. But later these “warts” grew once more.
“There were a lot of videos and recordings regarding this boy that we might use and we talked to a number of experts regarding it. It was really interesting because I really didn’t even understand how warts develop. We also had to figure out how this might have happened in America because the little boy that this happened to lived in this little remote village on an island and therefore had no access to medical care. So we had to base our premise on the character’s withdrawn backstory, and then we might take it and use it.”
In “Grey’s Anatomy” Dr. Richard Webber cobalt poisoning.
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Dr. Richard Webber suffers cobalt poisoning
- In which episode? Staffel 16, Episode 21
- What happens on “Grey’s Anatomy”? Richard Webber behaves very differently here than usual and there were signs that he was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. However, Meredith and DeLuca are unconvinced by this diagnosis and following a blood test, it is confirmed that Webber does indeed have cobalt poisoning from a previous hip replacement.
- The disease: Cobalt poisoning
- The connection to real illness:
“Cobalt poisoning is real and can really cause all of these symptoms,” showrunner Krista Vernoff told The Daily Mail “Deadline”. “It can dementia-like symptoms cause. It can Parkinson’s-like symptoms – tremors, hallucinations – and the amazing thing is that once you’ve diagnosed it and removed the leaky hip from your body, you can make a full recovery.”
Ellen Pompeo bei “Grey’s Anatomy”
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Dr. Meredith Greys Mini-Lebern
- In which episode? Season 14, multiple episodes
- What happens on “Grey’s Anatomy”? One of the most interesting and innovative things Meredith ever did was create mini-livers using lymph nodes.
- The disease: ectopic liver through lymph nodes
- The connection to real illness:
It later emerged that this innovation was made by a faculty member at the University of McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Pittsburgh was inspired. The faculty member, Dr. Eric Lagasses, had worked on creating an ectopic liver in the lymph node.
A medical case on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ is inspired by Chandra Wilson’s daughter.
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A Santa Claus constantly vomits
- In which episode? Staffel 9, Episode 6
- What happens on “Grey’s Anatomy”? A homeless Santa Claus is initially suspected of getting drugs. It turns out he suffers from cyclic vomiting syndrome, a condition that can cause sudden and repeated bouts of nausea and vomiting.
- The disease: The cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) is one functional disorder consisting of recurrent stereotypical vomiting episodes lasting hours to days, with intervening symptom-free intervals. The diagnosis is often only made years later.
- The connection to real illness:
This case was brought by Chandra Wilson (Miranda Bailey) inspired who directed the episode and her experience with her Daughterwho has the syndrome. “She started having these terrible bouts of vomiting and stabbing stomach pains,” Wilson said “People”. “I thought: ,That was crazy’. There was something wrong with my daughter and no one might tell me what it was.”
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A man has a fish stuck in his penis
- In which episode? Staffel 3, Episode 21
- What happens on “Grey’s Anatomy”? A man comes to the hospital with the suspicion that there is a fish in his penis.
- The disease: Fish in the penis
- The connection to real illness:
“We mightn’t think of that!”said Clack to Entertainment Weekly. “It happens that the fish follows the stream of urine into the penis. That was a case we read regarding in Season 1 or 2 and we literally tried to fit it into three or four episodes. […] It was one of those cases from the Grey’s Anatomy story that we kept on the board and kept in the room like, “What regarding penis fish for this story?!” It appeared in so many episodes before it came in, it was hilarious.“
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