An American medical team has developed a remarkable matching system that brings kidney donors and recipients together in a kind of communal swap event. This program illustrates just how this innovative surgical arrangement, known as a "domino" or "daisy chain" transplant, is rapidly gaining favor among the medical community. Viewers watch as families, hospital staff, and a crack surgical team join forces for a day of simultaneous operations-swapping three kidneys, saving lives, and helping to change the future of transplant surgery.
An American medical team has developed a remarkable matching system that brings kidney donors and recipients together in a kind of communal swap event. This program illustrates just how this innovative surgical arrangement, known as a "domino" or "daisy chain" transplant, is rapidly gaining favor among the medical community. Viewers watch as families, hospital staff, and a crack surgical team join forces for a day of simultaneous operations-swapping three kidneys, saving lives, and helping to change the future of transplant surgery.
General Note
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Aug. 03, 2010.
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Content Note
Paired Kidney Exchange (4:08) -- Kidney Exchange Explained (2:12) -- Incompatible Kidney Donor (2:12) -- Patient and Donor Interview (2:20) -- Plasmapheresis Treatment (4:33) -- Johns Hopkins Immunogenentics Laboratory (2:36) -- Kidney Exchange Participant (1:08) -- Transplant Staff Meeting (2:56) -- Inherent Risk of Domino Surgery (2:08) -- Domino Kidney Transplant Plan (2:41) -- Patient Preparation for Domino Transplant (2:03) -- Effects of Daily Plasmapherisis Treatments (3:54) -- Domino Transplant Plan B (2:04) -- Domino Transplant Comes Undone (3:03) -- Reconstructing a Domino Transplant (2:44) -- Bad News for Transplant Patient (2:27) -- Hospital Preparation for Kidney Exchange (2:16) -- Final Preparation for Kidney Exchange (2:29) -- Domino Surgery Part 1 (2:08) -- Domino Surgery Part 2 (3:26) -- Post Transplant Update (1:54) -- Inside Domino Kidney Transplant: Credits (0:45).