<p>The corporate Kamineni Hospital, last week, conducted the country’s first ABO-Incompatible (non-matching blood groups) transplantation, successfully. A Pune based 35- year-old patient Deepak with A+blood group underwent such transplantation with the kidney gifted by his father Vithal Rao of O+ blood group on July 19.<br /><br />If the technique called ‘immunoabsorbption’ – succeeds then transplantation of kidney between people of two different blood groups will become a reality. It is also expected to cut down on the waiting-period for kidney patients, hoping for a donor with matching blood group.<br /><br />Dr Kamal Kiran, a Nephrologist, said that under the technique the patient’s body is first made devoid of all anti bodies, which reject the transplantation of non-matching blood group.<br /><br />“In 5 liters of blood there is 3 liters of plasma, which contains protein, anti-bodies and clotting factors, which has to be removed to make room for new anti bodies. The Kamineni Hospital has replicated the technique, which is now popular in Sweden, Germany, USA and Japan, where nearly 2000 patients have been treated so far,” Dr Kiran said.<br /><br />Dr Kiran and Dr Srinivas Guttha, transplant surgeons. say that transplantation with the new technique would make cadaver transplants more feasible, as patients need not wait for the right kidney. Right now the waiting list for certain kidneys is four years, the doctors said, contending that life becomes miserable for patients living on dialysis machine.<br /><br />“Though an ABO-I transplantation cost Rs 8 lakh it is worth it as it gives immediate and permanent solution and averts long wait and prolonged dialysis,” Dr Kiran says. <br />He said there were 30,000 patients in Andhra Pradesh waiting for a kidney transplant as against three lakh all over the country. <br /><br />The ABO-I technique is already popular in the West, for example the European soccer player Ivan Klasnic underwent ABO-I last year and is already playing his favourite game, the doctor’s added.<br /></p>
<p>The corporate Kamineni Hospital, last week, conducted the country’s first ABO-Incompatible (non-matching blood groups) transplantation, successfully. A Pune based 35- year-old patient Deepak with A+blood group underwent such transplantation with the kidney gifted by his father Vithal Rao of O+ blood group on July 19.<br /><br />If the technique called ‘immunoabsorbption’ – succeeds then transplantation of kidney between people of two different blood groups will become a reality. It is also expected to cut down on the waiting-period for kidney patients, hoping for a donor with matching blood group.<br /><br />Dr Kamal Kiran, a Nephrologist, said that under the technique the patient’s body is first made devoid of all anti bodies, which reject the transplantation of non-matching blood group.<br /><br />“In 5 liters of blood there is 3 liters of plasma, which contains protein, anti-bodies and clotting factors, which has to be removed to make room for new anti bodies. The Kamineni Hospital has replicated the technique, which is now popular in Sweden, Germany, USA and Japan, where nearly 2000 patients have been treated so far,” Dr Kiran said.<br /><br />Dr Kiran and Dr Srinivas Guttha, transplant surgeons. say that transplantation with the new technique would make cadaver transplants more feasible, as patients need not wait for the right kidney. Right now the waiting list for certain kidneys is four years, the doctors said, contending that life becomes miserable for patients living on dialysis machine.<br /><br />“Though an ABO-I transplantation cost Rs 8 lakh it is worth it as it gives immediate and permanent solution and averts long wait and prolonged dialysis,” Dr Kiran says. <br />He said there were 30,000 patients in Andhra Pradesh waiting for a kidney transplant as against three lakh all over the country. <br /><br />The ABO-I technique is already popular in the West, for example the European soccer player Ivan Klasnic underwent ABO-I last year and is already playing his favourite game, the doctor’s added.<br /></p>
