Matching the blood groups (or blood group compatibility) is one of the primary and most crucial steps in organ donations.
Primary immunosuppression of the first two recipients of hearts from ABO-incompatible donors and all recipients of hearts from ABO-compatible donors consisted of cyclosporine (Neoral, Novartis Canada; ...
Currently, patients who undergo blood-group (ABO)-incompatible, living donor liver transplantation tend to have poor outcomes. Given the lack of available ABO-compatible donors, however, there remains ...