Sun Express | Kemal Cakir
The liver of 59 year old Kathleen Patricia Kingston, British woman who passed away in Muğla due to a celebral hemmorage was transplanted to Turkish patient Arif Kavas. Associate Prof. Dr. Murat Kılıç said that expats living in Turkey prefer Turkish patients in organ donations.
In 2009, 47 year old Arif Kavas was diagnosed with liver failure. His 2-year struggle for life ended with the British national Kathleen Patricia Kingston’nun donated organs. Her liver was tranplanted to Arif Kavas at Private Kent Hospital in Çiğli, İzmir. Previous transplantation attempts either from cadavers or live donors had failed. Kavas said “All my dreams were destroyed after all those unsuccessful attempts. My doctors called me telling that they found a suitable organ and they can do the operation.
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