2 Kentucky Patients Test Positive for Hep C Following Kidney Transplants

In March 2011, three organs (two kidneys and the liver) from a deceased donor were transplanted into three recipients at a Kentucky hospital, two of whom later tested positive for hepatitis C, according to an analysis by the CDC.

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Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on the Kentucky organ transplantation.

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