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Chain of Kidney Transplants Gives 14 Patients New Life

By Tamara LytleJun 15th 2010 – 8:06PM

WASHINGTON (June 15) -- Members of a human "domino chain" met for the first time today, representing most of the 28 organ donors and patients involved in a world-record series of linked kidney transplants. Many of the patients were ailing from kidney disease but had been unable to find a match in a kidney donated by...

Background on organ donors

Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body, from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation.

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