US Hospital Performs First Six-Way Kidney Swap Transplant

Surgeons at the The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, have carried out the first simultaneous six-way kidney transplant operation involving six donors and six recipients that were paired using a “domino” system that relies on altruistic donation to facilitate better matching of recipients with volunteer donors.

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Filed under: Transplants on April 11th, 2008