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« on: April 02, 2006, 01:49:50 PM »

This was part of an introduction from Cheryl, but I thought it needed to be repeated here under the new Transplant Stories Section.
Hi Cheryl,

I swear I was JUST thinking about that today.  We need a section for Transplant Patients to vent their frustrations.  It is a whole different ball game.  Transplantion is just another form of dialysis and there are things I "hated" about it too.  But, like Epoman said, there would have to be more then the two of us in order to make a whole new section.

I had my transplant for 17 years and it just gave up in September.  I just found out my PRA (Panel Reactive Antigens) are 93.  So, I'd be interrested in hearing about the program you are in.  I keep saying, I'd rather have my transplant 17 years and have the antigens screwed up than to have 3 transplants that didn't last. 

By the way..... welcome to the site.  I'm sorry about you losing your transplant, but you had a hell of a run!!!  32 YEARS Wow!! 
Bless your Spouse for offering his to you.      I'm looking forward to your posts.
 
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Rerun, to answer your question, at the Mayo Clinic they have a program called "positive crossmatch" where people with high antibodies because of previous transplant can have what they call plasmapheresis treatments.  The process is similar to dialysis in that blood is taken through some sort of access and the plasma is separated out and replaced with donor plasma or some other fluid and returned to you.  This is done until you and the donor no longer have a positive crossmatch.  So if you have someone who is interested in being a donor it would be something to check into.  I think you and your donor have to be relatively healthy, other that the obvious!     Anyway, look on the website for the Mayo Clinic, positive kidney transplant for more information.  This is sort of my rudimentary understanding of the process.  I guess they also have programs where people who don't even have the same blood type can be transplanted too.
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