Transplant support

Bangalore Medical Services Trust & Research Institute maintains two full-fledged laboratories to support transplant activities through testing, cross matching and tissue typing.

Established in 1997, the PT Kasturi Memorial Histo-Compatibility Laboratory carries out tissue typing and matching tests, which are prerequisites for organ transplantation. Serological and PCR (NAT) techniques are used to perform HLA typing. On an average the laboratory performs 25 to 35 tissue typings per month and 15 to 20 cross matches for patients from Renal Transplant Centres in Bangalore and Mysore.

Built in 2002, the NAT (Nucleic Acid Testing) Laboratory performs HLA typing by DNA (PCR) methods; Nucleic Acid testing, and diagnosis of Transfusion Transmissible Infection agents. We are also the 2nd laboratory in India to launch NAT technique for testing for viral RNA for HIV, Hepatitis C, etc., using NAT methods.

The organisation aids bone marrow transplants with PBSC harvesting, cryoprecipitation and storage. It also provides platelets and other blood products to support patients who have undergone a bone marrow or stem cell transplant.