Hyderabad sources have stated that on Rakshabandhan, Jayanti Gili and T. Sunitha has given a gift of life to their brothers ailing with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Doctors also found that the two donors and recipients had a 100% tissue match -a rare phenomenon that's said to increase the lifespan of kidney in the recipient when compared to a kidney obtained from an unrelated or cadaveric donor.
Dr B Vijay Kiran, assistant professor of nephrology at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (Nims) has stated that it is not necessary that the kidney donor and recipient tissue should match before transplantation, which helps them to predict the lifespan of the donated kidney in the recipient.
While Kims hospital reports 88 cases of sisters saving the lives of their brothers by donating kidney since 2003, Nims records show 34 such cases since 2011, but comparatively, the records are poor when it is seen the other way round.
Dr P Vikrant Reddy , senior consultant nephrologists Care Hospitals from Banjara Hills has told that there are also rare instances of even unmarried brothers like J Mahesh, 34, a resident of Renigunta near Tirupathi, turning kidney donor for his married elder sister C. Aruna, who had to undergo a transplant as she was suffering from ESRD.
