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Kidney Transplantation from Brain-Dead Organ Donors
We hereby announce that a kidney transplant using organs from a brain-dead donor was performed at Tokushima University Hospital. The details are as follows:
1) Recipient: A female in her 60s
2) Department performing the transplant: Urology
3) Surgeons operating on the recipient: Urology (Kunihisa Yamaguchi, head of outpatient care, and colleagues)
4) Time surgery started: 2:18 PM on Wednesday, August 27, 2025
5) Time surgery ended: 9:11 PM on Wednesday, August 27, 2025
6) Patient’s status postoperatively: Surgery ended as planned, and the patient was stable.
7) Other details: This is the fourth organ transplant involving a brain-dead donor performed at this hospital.