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First-ever cross-blood kidney transplant
February 19 , 2025
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- The Doctors at MIOT International in Chennai, made a cross-blood transplant in patient with rare Bombay blood group
- In 2010, team of MIOT Hospitals a used a kidney from a donor with B blood group on a recipient with O blood group, successfully.
- They have used special procedure called double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) developed by the Japanese.
- The Bombay, a.k.a. HH, blood group is a rare blood group first discovered in Mumbai in 1952 by Y.M. Bhende.
- The key differences between the Bombay blood group and the common ABO blood groups lie in the presence (or absence) of the H antigen.
- These people cannot receive blood transfusions from any ABO group, including type O, which has the H antigen.
- They can only receive blood from another Bombay blood group donor.
- Its prevalence is about 0.0004% (one in 4 million) of the total human population.
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