Patient Gets 4th Kidney After Transplant Falters
A Bergan County assistant prosecutor who already has three kidneys in his body received a fourth when he underwent his second transplant.
Ike Gavzy, 48, suffers from benign familial hematuria, a hereditary disease that slowly eroded his own kidneys’ ability to function. When the kidneys he was born with began to falter in the early 1980s, he received a third kidney from his father.
Since Gavzy’s own kidneys were not doing any harm, doctors left them and added the third.
Since that donated kidney was functioning at barely 15% capacity, he received a cousin’s kidney.
A doctor said Gavzy could be back home Tuesday and may be able to return to work in about a month.
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