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Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,800 | 12 surgeons, 10 hours, 10 patients: quintuple kidney transplant
12 surgeons, 10 hours, 10 patients: quintuple kidney transplant - CNN.com Quote:
It took 12 surgeons, six operating rooms and five donors to pull it off, but five desperate strangers simultaneously received new organs in what hospital officials Monday described as the first quintuple kidney transplant.
All five recipients -- three men and two women -- were doing fine, as were the five organ donors, all women, said Eric Vohr, a spokesman at the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center. The donors and recipients came from Canada, Maine, Maryland, West Virginia, Florida and California.
Several triple transplants have been done at Johns Hopkins, but hospital officials said the five simultaneous transplants performed Tuesday were a first.
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