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Are immediate family members better for organ donation in terms of rejection?

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Can be advantaged: Immediate family member can be less immunogenic to a person than strangers. However, the survival differences in organ transplants between unrelated and related individuals for similarly aged donors is small. The one exception are the 25% of siblings that share the same hla type, called hla identical.

Dr Friedman agreed

Answered 3/25/2014

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