Kidney Transplants from Very Young Donors Succeed (CME/CE)

Courtesy MedPage Today Surgery  Mon, 08/24/2009 - 09:57

Adults who receive a single kidney from a very young donor can survive with minimal complications, so that splitting pairs of kidneys from young donors may increase the number of patients who receive transplants, a new study found.


 

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