Two die after receiving organs · 2008-04-04 18:22
In USA two patients died and two are undergoing chemotherapy after receiving organs from a teenager who died of cancer.
Doctors first thought that Alex Koehne, 15, died of meningitis and followed his parents' wishes that his organs should be used to help others before it was discovered that he died of cancer, Times Online informs.
A 52-year-old man who had the boy's liver and a 36-year-old woman who received his pancreas died of the same cancer.
Two men, aged 46 and 64, received the boy's kidneys, which have now been removed, are undergoing chemotherapy. Doctors did not discover that the teenager died of anaplastic T-cell lymphoma and that his organs were infected with the disease until a month after his death on March 30 last year.
"[To] the two that lost family members, we send our sympathies to them," Lisa Koehne said,
ABC News reports. "Our hearts go out to them."
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