Talk:Wilson's Heart (House)

Just a few points; I might make these edits later:

- It's Huntington's Chorea, not "Cholera." - If I understood correctly, Amber couldn't filter the pills b/c of the kidney damage in the accident, not because it was a particularly high dosage. I might be wrong, though.

Scot0127 (talk) 03:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

No, you're correct. The drug she was on was Amantadine, which is an antiviral (with antiparkinsonic properties to boot) that has some particularly toxic side-effects if mis-used, or in Ambers case, if left in the body instead of being metabolized and filtered out. The reason the dialysis would have been pointless is because, like House stated, it bonds with protein. Kidneys could take care of that, but a dialysis machine can't as it's only a crude filter by comparison, designed as a stop-gap in the case of renal disease or renal failure. She "overdosed" not by taking too many, but by virtue of the drug hanging around and not exiting her system. And with the amount of organ damage she'd sustained as a result of the crash AND as a result of the toxicity of the drug, she wouldn't have been able to get any transplants. 124.148.41.66 (talk) 11:14, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

This is probably nothing, but there is a bit of symmetry with the end of last season, when House turns off the blood filtration machine, the woman's heart is still beating, and here Amber dies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.176.194 (talk) 06:18, 20 May 2008 (UTC)