#122 Kidney Transplant Preparation: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
The Effects of Blood Type on Waiting for a Kidney Transplant
If you have blood type O, you're probably going to wait longer. Blood type B is overrepresented on the kidney disease donor transplant waiting list. A and AB are less time. If you happen to develop a lot of HLA antibodies to very common HLA antigens in a population, then it's going to be harder to find a kidney that matches for you.
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