Doctors in the Washington, D.C. area performed a record breaking seven kidney transplant.  Seven kidney donors and seven kidney recipients came together at Georgetown University for the historic procedures.
 
The transplants were made possible thanks to a new procedure.  It's called plasmapheresis.  The process virtually eliminates the chances of organ rejection, making it easier for African-Americans to receive kidney transplants.  Of the 80,000 people on the kidney transplant list, 36 percent are African-American but only 15 percent of living donor kidneys go to African-Americans.

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