A family with 11 members who have each received a donor kidney has set a UK transplant record.
All of them suffer a genetic condition called Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).
Briggetta Greenaway, 55, who joined her brother, two uncles, three aunts and four cousins in the transplant club, said: ‘We are a unique family.’
Her uncle Bill Smith was the first family member to receive a transplant in 1963 in one of the UK’s first kidney transplants.
He died four months later of organ rejection, but four of his siblings had successful transplants between 1986 and 1998.
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