Japan's 1st intestine transplant from brain-dead donor held

Japan's 1st intestine transplant from brain-dead donor held

KYOTO, Japan - A girl is carried by doctors at Kyoto University Hospital in Kyoto for the first small intestine transplant from a brain-dead donor in Japan on Jan. 21. The transplant is part of the nation's 11th set of transplants from such donors since the procedure was legalized in 1997.

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