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Transplants: blood test to test for rejection
Transplants | Last Active: Jan 18, 2023 | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
Hi @gingerw 😊 It's great to hear from you! Thanks so much for jumping into the conversation. Yes, that's the test! It's Allosure by CareDx. I had a mobile lab technician come to my house too. Do you remember what your husband's result numbers were. For kidney transplant patients it says the median average stable patient is .21 and anything over 1.0 is showing concern. My last result was .18 which was classified as stable.
I am excited that your husband was part of the study. It sounds like Allosure is getting a lot of attention from the transplant community which is wonderful!
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@hello1234 I'll check with him to see what the numbers were. What had us so concerned, was the call came from out-of-the-blue, scheduling the mobile nurse. No warning from the doctor. So we called in a panic, not knowing if something had showed up in labwork that we weren't privy to. From what we gathered, his doctor was signed on to supply patients for the testing. Didn't give us an option to decline, but Bill wouldn't have anyways!
About 1.5 years after his transplant, he had to go through emergency testing, as the recipient of the second kidney from same deceased donor showed Hep C. Turns out it wasn't the donor, but the recipient with an issue. Bill was okay. And I went through a vaccine series to make sure, too. Can you believe my dr wasn't going to do that; I had to threaten to take him to the administration of the hospital!
Ginger