Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai, has performed an ABO-incompatible living-donor kidney transplant on a 40-year-old man with O-positive blood after reducing antibodies against his A-positive wife’s kidney through antigen-specific immunoadsorption.
Madurai: Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai, has performed an ABO-incompatible living-donor kidney transplant on a 40-year-old man with O-positive blood after reducing antibodies against his A-positive wife’s kidney through antigen-specific immunoadsorption. The recipient’s baseline anti-A antibody titre posed a risk of antibody-mediated rejection. The hospital initially planned about six plasma exchange sessions to reduce antibody levels. However, the patient developed lower-limb cellulitis after the first session, prompting doctors to postpone the transplant for about a month until the infection had resolved.
After his recovery, the team used sequential antigen-specific immunoadsorption treatments to reduce the anti-A antibody titre to 1:8 before proceeding with the transplant. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Madurai | Silver Rate in Madurai | Bank Holidays in Madurai | Public Holidays in Madurai | Madurai AQI | Weather in Madurai | Petrol Price in Madurai | Diesel Price in Madurai | CNG Price in Madurai | LPG Price in Madurai Stay updated with the latest Madurai news. The multidisciplinary team included nephrologists Dr Arun Prasath P, Dr Saravanan R and Dr Alagappan, urologists Dr Arun Kumar J, Dr Shankar K and Dr Vishnuraja R among others. Download the TOI App.