The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Comprehensive Transplant Center performed a record-breaking 20 surgeries in a two-day living kidney donor transplant chain, helping ten individuals in need. The chain involved two groups of five donor and recipient surgeries each day, transplanting healthy kidneys from 10 donors into 10 recipients.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Comprehensive Transplant Center set a new institutional transplant record, performing a chain of 20 surgeries to ten people in need of a kidney transplant.
Paired kidney donation happens when a person in need of a kidney has a living donor that’s not a compatible blood or tissue match. The transplant team then links incompatible donor/recipient pairs with other incompatible donor/recipient pairs to form a chain, so each recipient receives a compatible organ. The transplant swap begins with an altruistic non-directed donor. The final recipient is a person on the transplant waitlist.
“People with kidney failure can live for a long time on dialysis, but the treatment can be hard on the body and limit quality of life,” Rajab said. “Once the organ transplant is complete and the new kidney starts working, time and time again our patients tell me how good they feel. This is thanks to our donors, our heroes.”
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