A ‘heartbroken’ transplant patient who was given a kidney from a man who smokes 25 sticks of cigarettes per day wants new guidelines disclosing the history of donors.
Janice Richardson, 55, had two friends willing to donate a kidney to her when she accepted the organ from a dead patient who was a heavy smoker.
The incident happened in October 2013.
The kidney, which was never more than 15 per cent functional, had to be removed eight months after the transplant after an MRI scan revealed there was a stone in it and a narrowing artery.
Ms Richardson, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, claims that had she known the donor’s history of heaving smoking and high blood pressure, she would have declined the kidney and taken an organ from one of her friends instead.
She said: “My two best friends flew in from South Africa and Australia to be tested and were told they were a tissue match for…
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