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Northwestern Medicine surgeons are holding a press convention to debate an awake kidney transplant carried out final month on 28-year-old John Nicholas of Chicago, who obtained a kidney from one among his childhood mates and was discharged residence lower than 24 hours after surgical procedure. The affected person obtained an anesthesia shot in his backbone — a way that might "open the door to increase access to transplantation for patients who are high-risk to undergo general anesthesia," in accordance with a press launch from the hospital.

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