WASHINGTON, DC (GroundReport) – Typically patients who need a kidney transplant are not able to get one because kidneys from donors are rejected by their bodies’ immune system.
However, reports say that doctors are trying new ways to outsmart the immune system in order to more of those so-called "highly sensitized" patients. These patients are likely to do better with kidneys donated by living donors, considered the most suitable.
"I feel very lucky. Our son saved my life," said Cynthia Preloh of Arlington, Virginia, who received an unusual combination of blood cleansing and a cancer drug in order to receive a kidney from her son. If the treatment was not induced her body would have destroyed the donor kidney.
The work on confronting the immune system’s attack against donor kidneys is promising.
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