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February 1, 2007

Historic 5-way domino kidney swap

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Asimultaneous quintuple kidney transplant took place at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital on Nov 14, 2006. The historic event was made possible by a kidney swap involving 4 transplant candidates who each had a relative willing to donate a kidney and a fifth candidate who matched a donor who had offered a kidney to no particular individual for altruistic reasons.

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