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Mum receives daughter’s kidney in St George’s first tissue incompatible kidney transplant

Mum receives daughter’s kidney in St George’s first tissue incompatible kidney transplant

News & events | 28 Nov 2011 | Tags: first tissue incompatible kidney transplant immunosuppressive incompatible transplantation Mum receives daughter’s kidney

The transplant team at St George’s Hospital has performed its first tissue incompatible (also known as HLA incompatible) kidney transplant on a patient from London. Debra Gouldbourne, from Catford, was born with a condition that caused her kidneys to fail and received her first kidney transplant in 1986. In 2010 …
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