(Source: University of Michigan Health System) Six lives, three kidneys and one goal. Thanks to a collaborative effort by three area health systems, the lives of six Michigan residents have changed for the better through an ultimate display of paying it forward: a historic 3-way kidney swap. Three individuals needed life-saving kidney transplants. While they each had willing donors, they were not good matches. Kidney transplant teams from Beaumont Health, Henry Ford Health System and University of Michigan Health System worked together with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to find a kidney for each of their patients through a 'paired donation' program. This program allows...
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