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

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.