U.S. Hospital Pulls off Quintuple Kidney Transplant
“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 are describing as the world’s first quintuple kidney transplant.”
12 surgeons, 10 hours, 10 patients: Hopkins pulls off first quintuple kidney transplant
“The patients and donors, including one from Canada, were doing fine, said Eric Vohr, a spokesman at the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center. The donor-recipient pairs were not related and did not meet before Tuesday’s operations.”
