A number of patients of kidney transplant from the hill State are flocking a high-end private hospital in Mohali near Chandigarh since it has developed a technique of transferring kidneys among two persons of different blood groups.
Rekha, a young housewife from Kangra in Himachal, with an A+ blood group is leading a healthy life now after receiving one kidney from her husband who had a B+ blood group. The team of surgeons behind the successful transplant led by Dr. Priyadarshi Ranjan and Dr. Amit Sharma said here on Tuesday that such ABO incompatible transplants are becoming highly popular in the Northern region since the numbers of donors in close relation are decreasing and too much of legality is involved in getting the outside donors. The majority donors are now spouses and their blood groups are often different since they come from two different hereditarily ancestries.
The ABO incompatible transplants are catching up even in the smaller towns and about six patients have undergone a transplant in past few months, said the doctors from Fortis hospital. A simple blood test is performed to determine the amount of anti-bodies in the blood stream and the majority people have a treatable level of anti-bodies, they said.
Due to the new technique of immune conditioning it is now possible to transplant organs across blood group barriers and it is proving a boon to patients who do not have any blood group compatible donors in the family.
