Organ Donor Awareness Week: Mother Gives Son 'Second Chance' in Rare Living-donor Transplant

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Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Mother Gives Son 'Second Chance' in Rare Living-donor Transplant

This is a press release from the University of Illinois' Chicago medical-center campus. Transplant procedures have become so routine that this sort of surgery no longer attracts the headlines of the first heart transplant in 1967. In a rare living-donor transplant, a four-year-old from West Chicago,... Sign in to see full entry.

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This was originally intended to be written during Organ Donor Awareness Week only, but I felt like writing about transplant-related issues at other times of the year.

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