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A team of nephrologists and surgeons from Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona have successfully carried out, for the first time in Spain, a transplant of two kidneys from the same donor to two identical twin patients.
By: The world
The 11-year-old children were born with autosomal polycystic kidney disease, an inherited disorder that causes the development of cysts inside the kidneys and causes a slow and progressive loss of kidney function that makes long-term transplantation necessary, explained this Tuesday the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu.
The medical team of the Sant Joan de Déu Nephrology Service that treats them proposed the option of kidney transplantation to the patients’ families in March of this year, since, at only 11 years of age, their kidneys were functioning at only 10%.
“Since the parents are of the same blood group, the initial idea was that one of the parents could donate a kidney to one of the children and the other parent, to the other”, explained the head of the Sant Joan de Déu Nephrology Service Alvaro Madrid.
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