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Jamaican teen receives remote kidney transplant in US hospital first
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A Jamaican teenager facing Stage 5 kidney failure has successfully received a living donor transplant in a historic procedure at the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Florida, United States.
Arianna Crockett, an 18-year-old who was born in the United States but raised in Jamaica, received her new kidney Wednesday night, after the organ had been removed from a living donor across the United States earlier that day and flown to South Florida where the teen currently resides.
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Arianna Crockett, an 18-year-old who was born in the United States but raised in Jamaica, received her new kidney Wednesday night, after the organ had been removed from a living donor across the United States earlier that day and flown to South Florida where the teen currently resides.
In the process, s
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