A six-year-old girl had her
spleen replaced with a kidney in a world first at Turin's
Molinette Hospital on Wednesday. The revolutionary technique was
used on a girl who has been in dialysis since birth because of a
rare anomaly in the development of her kidney associated with a
malformation of blood vessels which prevented her from drinking
and urinating. The removal of her spleen enabled a kidney to be
implanted on the splenetic tissue left, doctors said. Molinette
Hospital is one of Italy's top centres of research.
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