Cape Town - UCT Private Academic hospital has joined the ranks of hospitals across the world with the successful completion of its very first ABO-incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplant this year. Usually, kidney transplants are only done with compatible donors and recipients, but in this procedure Chantal Davids, 39, who has blood type O+, received a kidney from Dr Faiza Toefy, 53, who is B+. Toefy is not Davidsīs doctor, but she was good friends with Davidsīs mother, Avril Cloete, who died in 2009. Toefy said that when Cloete needed a kidney transplant, she had also wanted to donate, but they were not a match. Despite Toefy and Davids also not being a match, this...
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