Hospital’s 5-transplant kidney swap a state record
In what is the largest single-hospital kidney swap in California, five patients received new kidneys from five healthy donors in a marathon series of operations performed Friday at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
The procedure is known as “paired donation,” a relatively new phenomenon in transplantation surgery. It occurs when each patient has a willing and able donor who isn’t a compatible match. But the donor matches someone else who needs a kidney and that patient’s incompatible donor matches someone else, and so on.
Comment: Good luck to all!