Hi All,

A married couple from my dialysis unit are off to a mainland capital city
for a transplant this week where the wife will donate a kidney to her
husband.  Not so unusual in this day and age, you may think, but the wife
and the husband have non matching blood types and this would have been
unthinkable not so long ago.

In fact, until this particular couple told me a couple of days ago about
their upcoming journey, I didn't know such a transplant was possible.  They
were telling me that they will be either the fifth or sixth (in that
particular city? in Australia?) to have this done.

Can anyone in the group shed light on this new procedure?  What the risks
are?  What the chances of retaining the graft are?  Etc, etc, etc.  There
are many people in the dialysis unit who would love to know more, so I said
I'd ask here.

Judanne
Tasmania

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This is not new, just unusual.
These are the blood type possibilities

Type A can donate to types A and AB.
Type B can donate to types B and AB.
Type AB can donate to type AB.
Type O can donate to types A, B, AB, and O.

In practice most hospitals donate to like bloodtypes in the US, so the
strange thing is that it is easier to get an AB tx (me) than an O

Alan


Judanne wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A married couple from my dialysis unit are off to a mainland capital city
> for a transplant this week where the wife will donate a kidney to her
> husband.  Not so unusual in this day and age, you may think, but the wife
> and the husband have non matching blood types and this would have been
> unthinkable not so long ago.
>
> In fact, until this particular couple told me a couple of days ago about
> their upcoming journey, I didn't know such a transplant was possible.  The
y
> were telling me that they will be either the fifth or sixth (in that
> particular city? in Australia?) to have this done.
>
> Can anyone in the group shed light on this new procedure?  What the risks
> are?  What the chances of retaining the graft are?  Etc, etc, etc.  There
> are many people in the dialysis unit who would love to know more, so I sai
d
> I'd ask here.
>
> Judanne
> Tasmania
>
>

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Alan,

Some hospitals are transplants beyond these -- what would be considered
incompatible blood types.  Johns Hopkins pioneered it. It includes removing
the spleen of the  person receiving the transplant.

The list you gave is still considered  matching transplants.

Tom
"Alan" <Spam@aol.com> wrote in message news:44A7D5A5.7010600@aol.com..[vbcol=seagreen]
> This is not new, just unusual.
> These are the blood type possibilities
>
> Type A can donate to types A and AB.
> Type B can donate to types B and AB.
> Type AB can donate to type AB.
> Type O can donate to types A, B, AB, and O.
>
> In practice most hospitals donate to like bloodtypes in the US, so the
> strange thing is that it is easier to get an AB tx (me) than an O
>
> Alan
>
>
> Judanne wrote:
> 

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Thanks, Tom, for pointing me in the right direction.

I went to the Johns Hopkins Incompatible Kidney Transplant page
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Tran..nKTP/index.html
and found that, as you said, the blood matches provided by Alan are
considered to be compatible and that they are running a programme for
incompatible blood matches, which is very exciting.

I have printed out the information on those pages and will be taking them
with me to the hospital today.

Thanks very much.

Judanne
Tasmania

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> Alan,
>
> Some hospitals are transplants beyond these -- what would be considered
> incompatible blood types.  Johns Hopkins pioneered it. It includes
> removing the spleen of the  person receiving the transplant.
>
> The list you gave is still considered  matching transplants.
>
> Tom


> "Alan" <Spam@aol.com> wrote in message news:44A7D5A5.7010600@aol.com.. 
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In article <xSRpg.26685$LT2.12359@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
"Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Some hospitals are transplants beyond these -- what would be considered
> incompatible blood types.  Johns Hopkins pioneered it. It includes removin
g
> the spleen of the  person receiving the transplant.

That's good to know  - I'm B- (or SOL). Only stage 2/3, but still..

--
"Did Father shoot him? I will eat Grandfather for dinner."
- Helen Keller, on learning of the death of her grandfather

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"Judanne" <judanne@bigpond.net.au> wrote

> I went to the Johns Hopkins Incompatible Kidney Transplant page
> http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Tran..nKTP/index.html
> and found that, as you said, the blood matches provided by Alan are
> considered to be compatible and that they are running a programme for
> incompatible blood matches, which is very exciting.

Extremely useful link, thanks muchly.

> I have printed out the information on those pages and will be taking them
> with me to the hospital today.

Ditto!

Paul

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