Miles Lowe, 30, knew he wanted to be the one to give his mother a kidney for a life-saving transplant to address her kidney failure, but he was declined as a donor at two transplant centers because his mother, Evelyn, had antibodies that would cause her to reject Miles’s kidney.

Then they met transplant surgeon Bonnie E. Lonze, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone’s Transplant Institute, who explained that through a process called plasmapheresis, they could filter the faulty antibodies from her bloodstream. Mother and son had successful surgeries in June of 2017.

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