Johns Hopkins hospital pulls off first five-way kidney transplant

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

BALTIMORE -- It took 12 surgeons, six operating rooms and five donors to pull it off, but five desperate strangers simultaneously received new organs in what hospital officials Monday described as the first-ever quintuple kidney transplant.

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