Tag: kidney transplant
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UK HealthCare performs longest kidney donor chain to date; most donors and recipients meet each other for first time
The University of Kentucky hospital recently performed its first kidney donor chain, and six of the eight patients who took part in it met their respective recipients or donors for...
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Stranger donates kidney after knowing recipient 5 minutes; could boost living kidney donations, which have better odds
Two strangers were randomly asked to take part in a five-minute demonstration of living art. It led to one of them donating a kidney to the other, Bailey Loosemore reports for The...
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Lexington TV reporter was moved to donate a kidney to a still-unknown stranger and hopes her story will encourage others
Lexington television reporter Leigh Searcy donated one of her kidneys to an unknown stranger and explained it to her 5-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son this way: “It’s like having two...