October 4, 2007

Kidney swapping a reality

Two couples have undergone a serious transplant operation, which see a husband and wife from Scotland paired up with a couple from Cambridgeshire. The procedure is very complicated, and involves a series of operations.

The woman from Scotland donated a kidney to the woman in Cambridgeshire, the husband of the woman from Cambridgeshire then in turn donated one of his kidneys to the husband of the woman in Scotland.

This is first time that an operation of this nature has been done in the UK, where transplants have been done between people who are unrelated or do not know each other.

This may at first seem a strange way of going about this, but if someone close to you needs something like this, then maybe almost everyone would consider it.

Source [Scotsman]

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