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Surgeons remove 4 kidneys through patients' bellybuttons
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Published: November 10, 2009
Updated: 11/10/2009 04:37 pm
BALTIMORE - University of Maryland Medical Center surgeons have transplanted four kidneys after removing them through donors' belly buttons.
The patients and surgeon Matthew Cooper announced the procedure Tuesday morning, a week after the surgeries were completed.
The kidney swap — accomplished with a small, single cut through a belly button — originated with a Westborough, Mass. man inspired by a friend's death from renal failure in 2008.
Edward Behn wanted to donate a kidney after losing the friend, former roommate and best man. So the 59-year-old contacted the medical center and agreed to be part of a kidney exchange.
Ten-year-old Sean Menard of Catonsville, 64-year-old Carl Lichtman of Lake Worth, an anonymous man and 74-year-old Bob Loudermilk of Virginia Beach, Va. received kidneys.
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