Israel’s first re-transplanted kidney

Israeli surgeons at Beilinson Hospital took out the kidney of a woman who had died of a stroke and transplanted it into her brother.  The kidney had been transplanted into the woman in an operation nine years previously.  It was the world’s fifth such operation and the first between relatives.

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