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Kidney swap’s impact reaches across states, including Oklahoma

 
April Choi    Comment on this article Leave a comment
Published: July 11, 2009

It started when a 54-year-old man in Virginia decided to donate a kidney after his daughter recovered from brain cancer. Thomas Koontz’s altruistic decision set in motion a kidney swap that helped save the lives of eight people, including one in Oklahoma City.

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