Surgeons in Oklahoma, Maryland and Missouri teamed up for the country's first six-way domino kidney transplant.
 
INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis worked together to provide kidney transplants to six people who needed them. All six donors and all six organ recipients are in good condition following the procedures.

The domino transplant involves six people donating kidneys to complete strangers. However, the donors are friends or relatives of other recipients with whom they were not compatible for a donation.

The process involved one kidney being flown from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, one from Oklahoma City to St. Louis and one from St. Louis to Baltimore.

This article originally appeared in the March 2009 issue of Kidney Transplant Today.