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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.  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 
> 
> 

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...
> 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. 
>> 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 

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

I went to the Johns Hopkins Incompatible Kidney Transplant page 
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Transplant/Programs/InKTP/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

"Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:xSRpg.26685$LT2.12359@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
> 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...
>> 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. 
>>> 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
>
> 

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 removing 
> the spleen of the  person receiving the transplant.

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

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