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Article: Kidney Paired Donation: 16 Patients, Four Hospitals, Four States.
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- July 23, 2009
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Henry Ford Hospital is the first in Michigan to participate in a domino donor kidney transplant in which eight patients received a new kidney from eight unrelated donors at four hospitals in four states (see also Dialysis).
Surgeries were performed on four separate days at Henry Ford, The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis as donated kidneys were transported by airplane to their intended recipients under a Kidney Paired Donation.
It is believed to be the largest series of kidney paired donation procedures performed in the United States. All eight donors - five ...