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Patient wait for a donor


Published on Tuesday 10 March 2009 08:42

A kidney patient whose transplanted organ failed after 19 years is now back on dialysis waiting for a new donor.

Colin Cooper (58) was critically ill with kidney failure when he was diagnosed in 1986 and spent three years on a form of self-administered dialysis.

Watch the video report here to find out what his treatment involves, why dialysis is like a tea-bag and how more transplant donors could help save lives...


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