CBS LOS ANGELES
WESTWOOD (CBSLA.com) — About 100 UCLA kidney transplant recipients and their donors united Monday for a holiday celebration.
CBS2’s Lisa Sigell reports that the gathering at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was to recognize living donor transplant “chains,” which begins when a man or woman donates a kidney. The organ is then transplanted into a recipient who had a willing donor, but was not a match. The incompatible donor then gives a kidney to another patient.
The UCLA Medical Center has participated in more “chains” than any other transplant center in the world.
Dr. Jeffrey Veale, the director of the UCLA Kidney Exchange Program, was overjoyed about the special milestone.
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Monday, 2 December 2013
UCLA Kidney Transplant Recipients, Donors Unite For Holiday Celebration
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