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Offline Karol

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Riverside Man Begins Longest Chain Of Kidney Donations
« on: February 24, 2012, 01:23:25 AM »
Nice radio interview on KPBS:
Riverside Man Begins Longest Chain Of Kidney Donations
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/feb/22/riverside-man-begins-longest-chain-kidney-donation/
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Re: Riverside Man Begins Longest Chain Of Kidney Donations
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2012, 05:47:29 PM »
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/27/BA2B1NBL03.DTL

Here's the San Francisco Chronicle link to the local part of the story.

Why do the articles always say the donor and recipient have to be the same blood type?  I fear it prevents people from testing.
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Re: Riverside Man Begins Longest Chain Of Kidney Donations
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2012, 07:03:08 PM »
We looked into abo incompatible transplants at Johns Hopkins. I am not sure the criteria, but my husband was not a candidate for his incompatible mother to donate.
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