Often, patients who need a kidney transplant have a living donor. Unfortunately, many living donors may not have blood or tissue types that match the recipient. If the donor organ does not match the recipient’s blood and tissue, the transplant will fail. Incompatible donor/patient pairs may be interested in one of our Incompatible Kidney Transplant programs.
- Blood Incompatible Transplant Program
- Positive Crossmatch and Sensitized Patient Program
- Paired Kidney Exchange
Kidney Transplants -- Even if Patients are Incompatible | Q&A
Robert Montgomery, MD, Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center, discusses all of the options for patients who require a kidney transplant, including dialysis, living donors and incompatible kidney transplants.
Play Now | TranscriptDr. Robert Montgomery published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine regarding patients who are difficult to match and the successful treatment options at Johns Hopkins. Watch the video below.
Dramatically Increasing Survival for Kidney Transplant Patients
Transplant surgeon Robert Montgomery talks about his research study about increasing the odds of matching patients on the kidney transplant waiting list and their successful outcomes.
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