First-Ever Quintuple Transplant Performed

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Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of Hopkins' transplant centre and head of the transplant team, pronounced the swap "a demonstration to the rest of the country that this is what's possible when people work together."

"That really hit home," [Sheila Thornton] said of receiving a lifesaving gift from a stranger. "How do you thank somebody?"

"I'm thrilled I'm giving to somebody," [Honore Rothstein] said, sitting next to Kristine Jantzi, 40, of Bangor, Maine, who received her kidney. "Her mom couldn't give to her, and I couldn't save my daughter."

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First-Ever Quintuple Transplant Performed

By Alex Dominguez

BALTIMORE -- It took 12 surgeons, six operating rooms and five donors to pull it off, but five desperate s...

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