A metro man’s gift of a kidney to a complete stranger wound up saving more than one life.
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Kidney Donor Sparks 30-Person Chain
CNN speaks with the man was the first link in the world’s longest living kidney donor chain.
Largest Kidney Donor Chain: National Kidney Registry Sets World Record
The world’s largest kidney donor chain has been completed in the US, with 30 patients receiving a kidney from 30 living donors, through the National Kidney Registry, according to World Record Academy.
Longest Organ Donor Chain Links 60 People In US
The world’s longest chain of organ donations has been completed in the US, with 30 patients receiving a kidney from 30 living donors. The complicated process lasted for four months and involved 17 hospitals across 11 states.
Record Kidney Transplant Chain
It is being called the world’s longest kidney transplant chain, with 30 recipients across the United States. WLS reports.
Kidney Donation Leads to Unexpected Kindness
We are grateful to The New York Times for this story, which took us inside a remarkable event, a kind of relay race of generosity. 90,000 people need kidney transplants tonight, 4,500 will die each year. But the man who founded the National Kidney Registry figured out that all of us would find it in …
Two Local Residents Part Of Record Kidney Donation Chain
A single good deed helped save the lives of 30 people. Two Chicago area residents are among 60 people who took part in the longest kidney transplant chain ever.
60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked
A donation by a Good Samaritan, Rick Ruzzamenti, set in motion a 60-person chain of transplants that ended with a kidney for Donald C. Terry Jr. Rick Ruzzamenti admits to being a tad impulsive. He traded his Catholicism for Buddhism in a revelatory flash. He married a Vietnamese woman he had only just met. And …
Shawnee Insurance Agent to ‘Give the Gift of a Birthday’ with Kidney Donation
Joseph Vohs, an insurance agent with Farmers Insurance in Shawnee, will donate a kidney anonymously in Chicago at the end of the month. Vohs said he hopes the procedure can become more commonplace in the Kansas City area.
Edna Medeiros’ Son with Kidney Transplant Gets Aid
Edna Marie Medeiros chokes up talking about how Season of Sharing—The Chronicle’s annual giving campaign—helped her move to a larger apartment so her son Antonio could have his own room while recovering from a kidney transplant.