Clinic staff at Johns Hopkins performed a surgery to six simultaneous kidney transplants. A number of transplants made possible by the advent of voluntary donors willing to donate a kidney to any needy. Members of five of the six transplant candidates were willing to give him a kidney, but could not do so due to tissue incompatibility. Simultaneously their body to go to other patients. With the sixth kidney doctors could make an exchange in which all patients have similar transplants. All surgery was decided to take place in one day, because it was impossible, the possibility that some of the potential donor may suddenly give up his intention to exclude. 12 operations that require the participation of more than 100 physicians from various specialties were operating in six on Saturday 5th April. There were no complications during the operation has not occurred, and now doctors assess the status of all donors and recipients as "excellent". According to American physicians, today six simultaneous kidney transplants - the large-scale operation of this kind in the world. Earlier in the same hospital five simultaneous kidney transplants were performed. The possibility of such operations by American doctors came from the comprehensive national system of data on donor organs and tissues.
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