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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