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July 18, 2024/Patient Stories

Woman is First in U.S. to Undergo Robotic-Assisted Dual Kidney Transplant

Patient Joanne

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Kidney failure can be a common condition associated with multiple myeloma, a rare form of blood cancer that affects the body’s plasma cells. That’s exactly what happened to 70-year-old Joanne Kukula, a Cleveland, Ohio, native who had retired to beaches in N.C., before the disease prompted a move back home to get treatment at Cleveland Clinic. Read more.

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