Thursday, February 02, 2012

Girl Has Six Organ Transplant

Wow.

HOLLIS, Maine (AP) — A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes — and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.

It’s believed to be the first-ever transplant of an esophagus and the largest number of organs transplanted at one time in New England.

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