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The Incompatible Live Donor Kidney Transplant Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital* is the largest living donor transplant program in Texas and one of the largest in the United States having performed more than 1,690 living donor kidney transplants to date. Our innovative program offers comprehensive solutions for kidney transplant patients with incompatible live donors from across the country. We are a national leader in turning "No" into "Yes!" by matching incompatible kidney donor and recipient pairs with our Paired Donation Kidney Transplant Program. The Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital* team performed the first paired exchange in March 2008 and has since completed more than 162 paired exchange kidney transplants--with 71 paired exchange transplants performed in 2010 alone! The Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital* is one of only a select number of kidney transplant programs in the U.S. to offer a Paired Kidney Donor Exchange Program which is ideally positioned to create donor chains thanks to its large database of incompatible donor/recipient pairs. Our Living Paired Donor Kidney Transplant team made history in November, 2010, with the world's largest paired donor kidney transplant donor chain--with 16 transplants completed over three days. The 17th donor's "bridge" kidney was used to start another chain in December. Read the local and national coverage this donor chain generated in our Kidney News section. In mid-December, 2010, the record-breaking kidney donor chain grew to 23--the largest single center chain in the world! All recipients were transplanted with fully matched kidneys without the need for any desensitization therapy. The kidney recipients ranged in age from 17 to 69. We further extended the chain in January--keep checking back for the latest developments on these remarkable accomplishments. The team has now completed a total of three kidney donor chains to transplant a total of 37 kidney patients. Donors and recipients came from throughout the United States, including Texas, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Georgia:
For more information, please contact our dedicated Living Paired Donor Kidney Transplant Program Coordinator at (210) 575-8447.
As the national leader in paired donation kidney transplantation with more than 162 exchanges performed since 2008, Texas Transplant Institute**'s large in-house database is designed to match incompatible donor/recipient pairs managed by a dedicated team of immunologists, physicians and transplant coordinators. Texas Transplant Physicians Group kidney specialists help identify living donors who wish to donate their kidney to a loved one but cannot because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible pairs are matched with other incompatible pairs, and the donors are exchanged, providing kidney patients with a transplant from a matched donor and a second chance at life. Click here for an example of triple donor exchange.
The Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital*--the largest program of its kind in Texas and one of the largest in the United States—is one of only a select number of kidney transplant programs in the U.S. to offer a Paired Kidney Donor Exchange Program which is ideally positioned to create donor chains thanks to its large database of incompatible donor/recipient pairs.
To reach our dedicated Living Paired Donor Kidney Transplant Program Coordinator,
A non-directed kidney donor is a living donor who is not known to the kidney transplant recipient but has selflessly chosen to donate a kidney. Non-directed organ donation is sometimes referred to as anonymous, altruistic, altruistic stranger, and stranger-to-stranger living donation. Non-directed kidney donation is a unique way to match living donors with compatible recipients and to increase the availability of matching kidneys for kidney patients in need of a transplant. It takes paired donor kidney exchanges one giant step further. By creating a “donor chain”—also known as domino kidney transplantation—one non-directed kidney donation can lead to many simultaneous kidney transplants by providing a match with incompatible donor/recipient pairs. The extra kidney, or “bridge” kidney, can be used to start a new donor chain or it can be offered to a compatible patient in the paired exchange database or the national UNOS waiting list, depending on the match. Here’s an example of how a donor chain works:
As you can see, a single non-directed donor is responsible for many kidney transplants—offering hope to three people who otherwise might not have the opportunity to receive a new kidney. For more information on non-directed kidney donation, please contact our dedicated Living Paired Donor Kidney Transplant Program Coordinator at (210) 575-8447. And be sure to check out these websites: Non-Directed Donation and Donor Chains: http://www.kidneyregistry.org/living_donors.php National Kidney Foundation—Living Donation: http://www.kidney.org/transplantation/livingdonors/index.cfm
Transplant Living-Living Donation: Read a fascinating blog about a non-directed donor and his kidney transplant recipient: http://www.kidneychronicles.com/2007/04/im-donating-kidney-to-stranger-on-april.html One Donor Sparks Five-Way Kidney Transplant: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Surgery/Transplantation/4567
Desensitization with plasmapheresis and IVIG for sensitized patients We have fully bilingual, Spanish-speaking physicians, clinical and support staff. To watch a video about Texas Transplant Institute’s transplant programs, including the Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program, click here. To see our ad in the February 2011 edition of Texas Monthly, click here.
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