Filed in archive News , Treatment by Gloria Gamat on March 13, 2006

A short-term study in the US found a 100% survival rate in kidney patients who had double transplants of kidneys earlier rejected for having limited function. This could help solve the organ donor shortage and could be as good as transplanting one high-function kidney organ. Or may be not?

The study was presented to the US Central Surgical Association.

Read the full report at BBC News, PlayFuls & UPI.

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