RE: Blood type, transplant issues

December 15, 2004

Dear ,

I am type O pos and the wait list for this type is long as well. I think even longer than AB. This is why my docs want me to multi list. My limited understanding is that O is a universal donor not a universal receiver. I wonder if AB is the same?

Ali

Ali Lingerfelt-Tait

alisoikias@...

411 charlotte st.

asheville, N.C. 28801

828 253-8996

-Recycle yourself -

become an organ and tissue donor

December 15, 2004

, call and I believe

hit #4…ask for Donna in Dr. Weber’s office…she will be able

to give you all the information, as well as if UC is doing live liver

transplants…I believe they are…tell Donna I asked you to call…

Anne Tinnell…

Blood type,

transplant issues

Hi everyone,

I seen

mention in the group of a few members that go to the University of

Cincinnati. I went there at one time, but had decided to switch to

Starzll, when UC stopped doing living donors. (I think they may have

resumed doing them since.) I was never seen by starzll, because I got

pregnant a few months before my appointment.

I had

thought that my blood type was B+, this was what I was told by my mother.

When I was going through the listing process, I had two people step forward and

offer to be living donors for me. However, during my pregnancy, I learned

that my blood type is actually AB+. I was doing some research last night

on the UNOS site. It looks like there are few people with AB blood type

waiting for livers, but the wait seems quite long. I know that blood type

AB is the universal recipient for blood, however, can anyone tell me if it is

the same for organs? Meaning, could I get a living donation from someone

with B+ blood? I couldn't find any information on this on any of the

sites. Just my luck, rare disease, rare blood type. Now that

we're starting to look at listing again, I may want to have these living donors

tested.

I hope everyone is doing well!

Love,

December 15, 2004

Definitely multi-list, no

matter where you list in the US…my husband wouldn’t be alive if we hadn’t…

Re: Blood

type, transplant issues

Dear

,

I am type O pos and the wait list for this type is long as well. I think

even longer than AB. This is why my docs want me to multi list. My limited

understanding is that O is a universal donor not a universal receiver. I wonder

if AB is the same?

Ali

Lingerfelt-Tait

alisoikias@...

411 charlotte st.

asheville, N.C. 28801

828 253-8996

-Recycle yourself -

become

an organ and tissue donor

December 16, 2004

According to UNOS data, AB blood types actually have the shortest

average wait list time -- looks like it averages around 200 days

nationally. AB patients in our region wait around 170 days, according

to UNOS data.

Larry's hepatologist at UAB said that in the five years he's been

there he's never had an AB patient leave the hospital without a new

liver, except one woman who passed on an available liver because she

was doing well and her MELD was only 16. Currently, there are only 12

AB patients on the wait list in our region (region 3) and only 1 at UAB.

People with AB can accept livers from any other blood type donor.

Though AB is a rarer blood type, the number of donor livers available

to those with AB is greater.

We consider Larry's AB+ blood type to be a blessing, especially as we

look at the data on the UNOS site.

Nellie

(Wife of Larry (32) PSC 9/04, UC 10/04

December 21, 2004

, did you call U of C????

Blood type,

transplant issues

Hi everyone,

I seen

mention in the group of a few members that go to the University of

Cincinnati. I went there at one time, but had decided to switch to

Starzll, when UC stopped doing living donors. (I think they may have resumed

doing them since.) I was never seen by starzll, because I got pregnant a

few months before my appointment.