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Hearts and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHEADLINE: Reused donor kidney works in 2nd recipient\u003cbr/\u003eCAPTION:   Chicago surgeons successfully re-transplanted a donated kidney in a second patient when it had to be removed from the first, proving kidneys can be recycled.  Hearts and livers are reusable too. (April 25)\u003cbr/\u003e(SUPER = Chicago)                                                  \u003cbr/\u003e(SOT - ray - too quick to super)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I''ve reached end stage renal failure.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(SUPER = File)\u003cbr/\u003e(SOT - erwin - too quick to super)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Right now I feel great.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(SOT - surgeon)\u003cbr/\u003e(SUPER = Dr. Joseph Leventhal, transplant surgeon, Northwestern Memorial Hospital)\u003cbr/\u003e\"What''s groundbreaking about this particular report is our ability to remove a kidney from someone who has been successfully transplanted but is destroying the kidney due to their underlying cause of kidney failure//If you were able to remove this organ, you could put into another individual who doesn''t have the same cause of kidney failure and that organ will fully recover and function entirely normally.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(SOT - surgeon)\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is a much higher risk of technical complications//We''re having to do fairly detailed reconstruction of blood vessels.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(NAT POP - Ray) \u003cbr/\u003e\"It''s going well\" \u003cbr/\u003eCHICAGO (AP) _ It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days _ even kidneys and other organs donated for transplants.\u003cbr/\u003e   Recently in Chicago, in what is believed to be the first documented case of its kind in the U.S., a transplanted kidney that was failing was removed from a patient while he was still alive and given to somebody else.\u003cbr/\u003e   There have been other cases since the 1980s of transplant organs being used more than once, but they were rare and involved instances in which the first recipient died.\u003cbr/\u003e   Typically when transplanted organs fail in living patients, doctors throw them away. But with more than 73,000 people awaiting transplants nationwide, some specialists say doctors should consider trying to reuse more organs to ease the severe shortage.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"The need for kidney transplantation doesn''t match our capacity,\" said Dr. Lorenzo Gallon, a Northwestern University transplant specialist who oversaw the kidney recycling operation in Chicago. \"People die on dialysis\" while awaiting kidneys.\u003cbr/\u003e   That was the possible fate awaiting two strangers. A research letter describing the unusual case was published in Thursday''s New England Journal of Medicine.\u003cbr/\u003e   The donated kidney lasted just two weeks in the first patient, a 27-year-old Illinois man. The same disease that ruined his kidneys started to damage the new kidney, given to him by his sister. He was getting sicker, and doctors needed to act fast if they were going to save the organ. With permission from the man and his sister, they removed it last July and retransplanted it into a 67-year-old Indiana man.\u003cbr/\u003e   The Illinois man is back on dialysis and will probably get another transplant eventually.\u003cbr/\u003e   Still, reusing a transplanted organ can be tricky _ and riskier _ because surgeons have to deal with scar tissue that typically forms around an organ as the body heals from the operation.\u003cbr/\u003e   Also, Wayne Shelton, a bioethicist at Albany Medical College in New York, said the practice may raise ethical questions. He said doctors need to make sure patients who are offered reused parts understand all the risks and are not made to feel coerced into accepting such organs. And because these cases are so rare, there is little data on how patients with recycled parts fare, Shelton noted.\u003cbr/\u003e   Dr. Jonathan Bromberg, director of transplantation at the University of Maryland Medical Center, praised the Northwestern doctors but said organ recycling is unlikely to become commonplace because it would be rare for an already transplanted organ to be healthy enough to be reused.\u003cbr/\u003e   In Boston in 2009, a man died shortly after a getting a new heart, and the organ was in good enough shape to be transplanted into someone else. A 2005 medical journal report detailed three U.S. cases involving donor livers reused after the initial recipients died, and said they were among 11 similar cases between 1987 and 2005. Medical literature also includes reports from the 1990s about a kidney retransplant in Spain and a heart retransplant in Switzerland.\u003cbr/\u003e   In the Chicago case, Ray Fearing of Arlington Heights, Ill., received a new kidney that was later reused by Erwin Gomez of Valparaiso, Ind., a surgeon familiar with the medical complexities involved.\u003cbr/\u003e   Joel Newman, a spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing, said previous retransplants in the U.S. \"have occurred when the original recipient has died soon after a transplant but the organ is still able to function. To our knowledge, this is the first publicly reported instance where a kidney has been removed from a living person due to the risk of organ failure and retransplanted.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Fearing had a disease that caused scarring that prevented the kidneys from filtering waste from blood. He had to quit his industrial machinery job and went on dialysis a year ago. His sister donated a kidney last June in what was \"probably the happiest moment of my life,\" Fearing said. The worst, he said, was a few days later, when doctors told him the kidney was damaged and had to be removed.\u003cbr/\u003e   Gallon, medical director of Northwestern''s kidney transplant program, thought the kidney could be reused in somebody else if it was removed quickly, before it became irreversibly damaged.\u003cbr/\u003e   Gallon needed Fearing''s permission, and also asked the young man''s sister, Cera Fearing.\u003cbr/\u003e   Fearing said he was heartbroken and reluctant to abandon an organ that had been his only hope for a normal life. But he decided it was the only option that made sense. His sister, too, was crushed but said she didn''t hesitate when told her kidney might help someone else.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"I just assumed it''s damaged, it''s garbage,\" she said. \"The fact that they were able to give it to someone that somehow was able to benefit from it was great.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Gomez was selected because he was a good match. But Gallon said doctors also thought Gomez''s medical background would help him understand the complexities. Gomez said he had never heard of reusing transplant organs, and he worried about taking what seemed like damaged goods. But he agreed after the Northwestern team explained the risks and possible benefits.\u003cbr/\u003e   The removal and retransplant operations took place July 1. Within two days, the transplanted kidney had regained function. Gallon said he is convinced the damage is reversed.\u003cbr/\u003e   Gomez is taking anti-rejection drugs and is off dialysis. \"I finally feel normal,\" he said. 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