Source : BBC News, May 2010
Kidney transplant patients in the West are able to receive organs from donors with a different blood group for the first time. Southmead Hospital in Bristol is one of the first outside London offering a so-called “blood group incompatible kidney transplantation”.
About one in three potential kidney donations from family members failed to proceed in the past because those involved had different blood types.
Blood is “washed” in the new procedure, removing harmful antibodies and enabling the recipient to receive an organ from a donor despite having an incompatible blood group.
This brings significant hope for a variety of transplant procedures! Read the full story, here…
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