CHENNAI: A Chennai-based multi-specialty hospital in collaboration with a Japanese hospital presented a new method of organ transplantation in India on Saturday. The process will facilitate kidney transplants between different blood groups.
Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (MIOT) International, a multi-specialty hospital in Chennai, addressed a medical technique named ‘ABO Incompatible Kidney Transplantation’.
“The patients will be subjected to a week-long treatment before surgery to reduce antibodies in the bloodstream of a recipient which rejects the organ transplant from a donor having a different blood group,” said Dr Rajan Ravichandran, Director of MIOT Institute of Nephrology in Chennai.
“The treatment involves Plasmapheresis, a process to bring down the count of antibodies in the bloodstream around 1/60 to 1/64 which will allow the kidney transplant between a donor and a recipient belonging to different blood groups,” the doctor pointed out
He added that the patient would be kept under observation and the antibody levels would be monitored with titer tests. MIOT has been collaborating with Prof Kazunari Tanabe, chairman of Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital in Japan who will reportedly mentor the medical teams in MIOT. The success rate of kidney transplants under ABO Incompatible are above 90 per cent, he said.