Nurse becomes a living organ donor for her mom – twice
CNNCNN — Marzena Stasieluk needed a new kidney. It wasn’t so bad that she would be prioritized for a liver from a deceased donor, her family said, but bad enough that a kidney transplant likely wouldn’t work. “So, they kind of, like, threw their hands up and were just, kind of, like, ‘sorry.’ ” In January 2020, an appointment with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, introduced a new idea: Doctors suggested Marzena get a portion of a liver from a living donor. I don’t want them, the kids and my grandkids, to lose me.” After the liver transplant, Jennifer was prepared to donate a kidney to a stranger as part of a paired donation – a process in which living donor’s kidneys are swapped so recipients like Marzena receive a compatible organ. Taner said the Stasieluks are the first case they’re aware of where a liver’s effect on a patient’s immune response allowed for a subsequent kidney transplant from the same donor.
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