Blood Type Other 80-Year-Old Father Donates Kidney to Son...Miracles Made by Paternal Love and Medicine
Nov 08, 2025
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According to Chinese media such as Shaoxiang Morning News, the organ transplant center at Shenya Hospital in Zhongnam University recently succeeded in transplanting kidneys from an 80-year-old father with different ABO blood types to a 48-year-old uremic patient.
This surgery is an example of overcoming the double difficulties of blood type nonconformity and elderly donors, and is considered to have prolonged the patient's life and improved the quality of life.
The beneficiary, identified only by his surname Jeong, 48, has been relying on dialysis to sustain his life due to hypertensive nephropathy and uremia due to prolonged hypertension. Frequent dialysis placed great constraints on daily life and work, and kidney transplantation was the only hope. In response, an 80-year-old father volunteered to donate his kidneys to save his son.
However, the blood type was not right because the father was type A and the son was type O. In this case, it is highly likely to cause a rejection.
In addition, the donor is old and has a history of cervical injuries and abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery, so the medical staff judged it as a "high risk group for transplant surgery".
However, with the strong will of his father, who wants to donate, Xiangya Hospital's organ transplant center immediately organized a multidisciplinary team of experts (MDTs) such as organ transplantation, nephrology, anesthesia, cardiovascular disease, critical care, blood transfusion, and vascular surgery to plan precise treatment.
After much preparation, the operation ended in success.
The donors and beneficiaries, the rich, are recovering their health.
Xiangya Hospital evaluated the operation as a `Miracle Created by Medicine and Paternal Affection' and demonstrated that safe and successful transplantation is possible even in elderly and blood type unsuitable donations through precise evaluation and customized treatment" he said.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
