مريضة بالفشل الكلوي في حوجة عاجلة لمتبرع

Quote: By filtering kidney patients' blood of antibodies that normally would reject a donor kidney, transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins have been 93 percent successful in transplanting the organs between any two people regardless of blood type or prior exposure to their tissue type. The natural antibodies (blood proteins) most people have would destroy an organ from someone of a different blood type, so transplant patients historically had to have a compatible blood type donor. But by filtering the blood of antibodies and giving patients a medication that prevents the antibodies from coming back, doctors are crossing these barriers. The combined treatment has been successful both for patients who are considered "ABO incompatible," meaning their blood type – A, B, AB or O – differs from their donor, and for those who are "sensitized" to proteins in their donor's tissues from exposure to these factors during previous transplants, blood transfusions or pregnancies.