A New Method Discovered to Facilitate Kidney Transplantation

Organ donation means not only changing the lives of a person, but also of that person’s loved ones, family, that is, changing the lives of dozens of people with that person. This issue, which is to save someone’s life in a way, is of great importance. Work in this area continues unabated.

Scientists from Cambridge University in kidney transplant They carried out a study that they believed would start a new era. One of the biggest problems in kidney transplants blood incompatibility in the kidneys This method, which was discovered to be able to eliminate

A special enzyme turned the blood into group 0

People with different blood types cannot donate kidneys to each other. However kidney’s blood from group 0 kidney transplant becomes possible for every patient. In a new study conducted in the UK, scientists molecular scissors that is, a device used to pass oxygenated blood through the kidney to help protect the kidney, and special a with enzyme He made kidney transplantation possible by converting the loaded blood into group 0.

This enzyme removed the blood group markers lining the vessels in the kidney and somehow changed the blood group to O. Tests performed on three donor kidneys were successfully completed. The scientists who carried out the research, the process only takes a few hours explained, and he thinks that this outcome will potentially affect many lives in positive ways.

The research team’s next work will be to examine how kidneys that change to group 0 will react when given one of the normal blood types. This method will also be carried out with the help of a special device.