12 patients to participate in “kidney swap” at California hospital
A rare medical procedure involving twelve patients, six kidney transplants and two days of surgery is set to take place at a San Francisco hospital.
California Pacific Medical Center surgeon Dr. William Bry tells KGO-TV the “kidney paired donations” will be possible thanks to an altruistic donor who started a chain of donations.
Zully Broussard of Sacramento agreed to give a kidney to a man who has a relative willing to donate a kidney but was not compatible with him. That man’s relative’s kidney will go to a patient waiting for a transplant who also has a friend or loved one willing to donate to someone else, and on it goes until six people get transplanted kidneys.
The kidney transplants will be done Thursday and Friday and will involve six donor-recipient couples.
