Kidney transplantation places a healthy kidney from a living or diseased donor into the body of a person with end-stage kidney failure. It is one of the most common transplantation operations, and can help a person with kidney failure live much as he did before his kidneys failed.

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USC Transplanted Kidney in a Wrong Patient
medindia 8870 Posts A kidney was accidentally transplanted in a wrong patient at USC University Hospital, following which the hospital has shut down its kidney transplant program last month, prior to which the hospital would perform about two transplants per week. ...Read More
Posted on : Friday, February 18, 2011 7:13 PM

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Transplanting an organ is a serious matter. That's why everything must be secured so as to prevent error. It's just a good thing that no complications arose from transplanting the wrong kidney.

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