First Polish kidney transplant chain succeeds

First Polish kidney transplant chain undertaken on Tuesday lasted nearly 12 hours and ended up a huge success. "Everything went just as planned," Dr. Rafał Kieszek, one of operating doctors told the Polish Press Agency.

The three patients wanted to be kidney donors for their relatives who needed a transplant but were unable to make a direct transplant due to incompatibilities in blood groups. Eventually, six patients in total decided to do a chain transplant, which had to be, and was approved by the National Transplant Council’s Ethics Committee.

"The donors alongside with the receivers are feeling well and the transplanted kidneys are working properly" Dr. Kieszek said.

The surgery was undertaken by specialists lead by professors Andrzej Chmura, Artur Kwiatkowski and Dr. Rafał Kieszek at the transplant clinic of the Infant Jesus Clinical Hospital in Warsaw.