For the first time in Austria, a child received one shortly before Christmas “inappropriate” Donor kidney successfully transplanted – that is, the kidney inserted from a donor who has a different blood group than the child. In this specific case, it was a living donation from a father from Vienna to his then 13-year-old son. Both are doing great.
Different blood groups
Due to a genetic disease, the son no longer had functioning kidneys and was dependent on dialysis. Typically, in such cases, one parent will donate a kidney, as the organ is usually a match. In this specific case, however, this was not the case because the blood groups did not match. The attending doctor at the Vienna General Hospital then turned to the experts at the Innsbruck clinic.
As the tirol kliniken announced yesterday in a broadcast, so-called “blood group incompatible kidney transplants” been carried out successfully in Innsbruck for several years, but never on a child anywhere in Austria.
Several disciplines would have to work closely together in a complex process. The reason: the recipient’s defenses must be deactivated at the right moment and to a sufficient extent in order to “hyperacute rejection”i.e. to prevent rejection of the organ during the operation.
Source: Nachrichten
