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Article: Friends' kidney swap 'success'
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- December 14, 2002
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THE North-East's first friend-to-friend live kidney transplant
appears to be a success, organ donor Derek Marshall has revealed.
Mr Marshall, 56, who donated one of his kidneys to lifelong friend
Bill Brough, 54, on Wednesday, was speaking from his home in
Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, yesterday.
"They have done tests at the hospital and the kidney is working
all right," said Mr Marshall, who went home from the Freeman
Hospital, Newcastle, at lunchtime.
"It is brilliant news, isn't it?" he said, still feeling slightly
groggy from the anaesthetic.
After a seven-hour double operation carried out by two teams of