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Pittsburgh hospital sued after live-donor transplant of hepatitis-C infected kidney. |
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Huffington Post: Michael Yocabet, who has diabetes and diabetes-related kidney disease, received a kidney from his life partner Christina Mecannic on April 6 this year after finding that the two are a match. But the couple said in the suit that there had been blood tests as early as January indicating that Mecannic was infected with hepatitis C before the transplant even took place; yet, it was allowed to continue on, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
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