A patient undergoing a kidney transplant is given a kidney from a person with type B blood when the patient is, in fact, type O.What effect of this mistake would be most likely?
A) Nothing, blood type does not matter in organ transplants.
B) Nothing, type O is the universal recipient.
C) organ failure
D) coma
E) a mild allergic reaction

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Type O individuals can only receive organs from other type O individuals due to the presence of anti-A and anti-B antibodies in their plasma. Transplanting a kidney from a type B donor into a type O recipient would likely lead to organ rejection and failure because the recipient's immune system would attack the foreign blood type antigens on the transplanted kidney.

A Patient Undergoing a Kidney Transplant Is Given a Kidney