President Bush Meets With "Six-Way" Kidney Tranplant Team And Patients

Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations
Article Date: 24 Apr 2008 - 15:00 PDT

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President George W. Bush met with patients, doctors and nurses who participated in the ground-breaking, twelve-patient "domino" kidney transplant in the Oval Office of the White House on April 23.

Aside from being what is believed to be to first-ever simultaneous paired donation transplant of six kidneys, White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolton's brother, Randall Bolton, was one of the patients.

You can learn more about the procedure here.

Robert Montgomery, M.D., Ph.D., is the chief of the transplant division at Johns Hopkins Hospital

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