Newswise — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Ann Marie Reynolds, a 32-year-old who has been in and out of hospitals fighting chronic kidney disease since she was a teenager, had a less than 1 percent chance of receiving a kidney without the University of Alabama at Birmingham's groundbreaking organ donation system that helped her and two other hard-to-match patients get kidneys in a three-way, incompatible kidney exchange earlier this year.
Even though UAB's incompatible transplant, desensitization program sometimes allows a transplant between a donor and recipient with different blood types, blood-type and tissue incompatibility can be barriers to a successful donor-recipient match. UAB's paired exchange and incompatible transplant programs are used in tandem to enable physicians and surgeons to identify and connect living organ donors with recipients and improve a recipient's ability to accept an organ with which he or she may otherwise have been incompatible.
Living Donor A may want to give a kidney to a friend, Recipient A; but they may not be compatible, and it may not be possible to make them compatible. Living Donor B may not be compatible with her son, Recipient B; but a transplant between Donor A and Recipient B might work. In Reynolds' case, a third donor and recipient were needed and identified, allowing three patients to receive a kidney.
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