Kidney transplants for two persons
Two persons who each received a kidney in transplant operations at Christchurch Hospital early yesterday morning were “postoperatively fit and well,” the medical superintendent of the hospital (Dr R. A. Fairgray) said yesterday.
The operations were carried out on a man and a woman in their early thirties and were the third and fourth performed in Christchurch. The first two were done about three months ago and the recipients were still doing well, said Dr Fairgray.
He said that it was too soon to express undue confidence in the outcome of the latest operations, as rejection could occur at any time up to three months.
As in the earlier operations yesterday’s were carried out by a team headed by a Christchurch urologist, Mr W. L. F. Utley. Both kidneys were ftom Mr Bryan Robert Murray, aged
23, who died on Monday afternoon after a motor-cycle accident near his home in Whangarei. He had willed his kidneys for transplant and as they matched the tissue type of both recipients they were flown to Christchurch on a routine flight by a Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules which landed at Christchurch Airport at 9.35 p.m.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33032, 27 September 1972, Page 16
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