Each calendar month, We strongly encourage you to submit for each and every patient on the active (status 1) kidney waiting list one red top blood tube in order for our laboratory to perform PRA testing, also known as a monthly serum screen. This is to ensure that we have adequate and up to date serum on file in case a donor does become available so that each patient may be fairly considered.
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The HLA/Immunogenetics Laboratory at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center provides critical histocompatibility testing services for:
Our laboratory began in 1969 when Eugene Heise, PhD, established one of the first clinical histocompatibility (HLA) laboratories. In 1970, Jesse Meredith, MD, performed the Medical Center's first transplant, an adult HLA-identical brother-to-brother living donor kidney transplant. Since then, our transplant program has attracted many patients, as well as nationally recognized faculty.
e.g., "allergy," "diabetes"
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