ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplants Offer Hope

Kidneys are very important because they clean our blood and remove waste.

When both kidneys stop working, people need dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay healthy.

A kidney transplant is better because it lets people live a normal life.

However, finding a matching donor is hard.

Now, doctors can do ABO-incompatible transplants, which means they can use kidneys from donors with different blood types.

They do this by reducing special antibodies in the patient's blood.

After the transplant, patients take medicines to keep their body from rejecting the new kidney.

This helps them live a healthy life.

Doctors also check donors carefully to make sure they are healthy.

Everyone should know about organ donation because it can save many lives.