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Doctors Transplant Same Kidney Twice In Two Weeks

Posted by samzenpus on from the reduce-reuse-recycle dept.

kkleiner writes "Twenty-seven-year-old Ray Fearing suffered from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a common type of kidney disease, and needed a new kidney. His 24-year-old sister, Cera Fearing, wanted to give him hers. The transplanted kidney immediately began to grow diseased, so doctors removed it. But then something happened that, according to the doctor who performed the procedure, had never been done before. The unhealthy kidney was removed from Ray, and replanted into another patient, and the kidney became healthy and has remained in this second patient ever since."

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  1. Get me a hammer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We'll make it fit SOMEPLACE!

    Yeah.. not the attitude i want a surgeon to have... What happens when the person who ended up with it gets a new disease...

    1. Re:Get me a hammer! by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just don't break any traffic laws and you'll be fine.

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  2. Re:uHHH.. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doctor: We don't have any kidney's available but we have this diseased and rejected kidney in the fridge. Intrested?

    If you're going to receive a transplant, it's best to get an organ with broad experience.

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  3. this is a good strategy for all transplants by bitt3n · · Score: 4, Funny

    get one patient to reject the kidney, and then, while the it's still depressed, another patient gets the kidney on the rebound.

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  4. It's that old saying by cvtan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kidney once, shame on you. Kidney twice, shame on me.

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  5. Re:Most Importantly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet the click through rate on the article just quadrupled thanks to this 4 word post.

  6. Re:Most Importantly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, she's keeping her weight down as well.