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Northwestern Memorial Successfully Completes Rare Four-Way Domino Paired Kidney Exchange Transplant Surgery
Date:4/8/2008

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One of the recipients, Pierre Kattar Sr., reflected on his surgery, "After waiting so long, I'm thankful to have finally received a kidney." Kattar Sr. unsuccessfully tried to find a kidney match three times prior to Thursday's surgery. "Dialysis is draining, I felt washed out after every session and had no quality of life," he added.

Another recipient, Niral Patel, was incompatible with his donor due to a positive crossmatch. Northwestern Memorial is one of two hospitals in Illinois and only a handful nationwide that offer the capability to transplant ABO, blood type incompatible, or crossmatch incompatible donors and recipients. Transplant physicians desensitized Patel's blood before the transplant took place through a process called plasmapheresis, which cleans the antibodies in the blood so they do not attack the new kidney after the surgery. Patel went through several plasmapheresis treatments in the weeks preceding surgery, as well as additional treatments afterwards to ensure that the transplanted organ is not rejected. "I was able to find a kidney, and it took seven other people coming together to make this happen. It's clearly a miracle," commented Patel after the surgery.

"We are proud to have achieved this milestone and are committed to building our paired exchange program further," said Michael Abecassis, MD, MBA, chief of the division of organ transplantation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "These programs provide more options for those in need of a transplant, which means more lives saved."

About Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Northwestern Memorial Hospital is one of the country's premier academic medical centers and is the primary teaching hospital of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern Memorial and its Prentice Women's Hospital and Stone Institute of Psychiatry have 897 beds along with 1,424 affiliated physicians and 6,464 employees. Northwestern Memorial is reco
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