- When Debbie Gianquinto found out that she couldnt donate her kidney to her husband, Dan, she offered up her much-needed organ to a stranger in Florida and Dan turned to a man he had never met in California for help. (Huffington Post)
- The worlds longest chain of organ donations has been completed in the US, with 30 patients receiving a kidney from 30 living donors. (BBC News)
- RIVERSIDE, calif. —Rick Ruzzamenti admits to being a tad impulsive. He traded his Catholicism for Buddhism in a revelatory flash. He married a Vietnamese woman he had only just met. (Denver Post)
- A year ago, an electrical contractor named Rick Ruzzamenti walked into a California hospital and offered to donate a kidney, no strings attached. (Chicago Sun-Times)
- A history-making kidney transplant chain involving 60 people across the country had two important links in the Chicago area. (Chicago Tribune)
- Rees of the University of Toledo Medical Center, whose registry, the Alliance for Paired Donation, put together the first non-simultaneous kidney chain. (New York Times)
- A conversation with a desk clerk at a yoga studio triggered the longest chain of kidney donation that has so far helped 30 people get a replacement kidney. (Med India)
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- What made the domino chain of 60 operations possible was the willingness of Ruzzamenti to give the initial kidney, expecting nothing in return. (Seattle Times)
- Theyre participating in whats referred to as a donor exchange program, said Robin Petersen-Webster, a kidney transplant coordinator with the Ohio State University Medical Center. (Zanesville Times Recorder)
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Kidney Donor chain
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