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FOUR DECADES LATER: KIDNEY RECIPIENT SHOWS OFF LONGEVITY
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teacher from Mthatha, a kidney, Tygerberg Hospital, 40 years ago and a South African record. These single phrases describe the life of 54year-old Vukile Genu, thus far the longest living kidney transplant recipient to have received a new lease on life at Tygerberg Hospital – four decades ago. When he was still a child on daily dialysis years ago, Genu anchored himself into the hearts of medical staff, rapidly becoming a favourite patient at the Kidney Unit, the hospital says in a statement. “Every Christmas he requested a different present from the staff – which he would al-
mer Hospital’s Renal Unit in ways end up getting, espe1974 when he was 11, with secially after resorting to vere high blood pressure. shedding some crocodile tears,” the statement reads. It was difficult to control “At the age of 14, he indiand Genu ended up with a bilateral nephrectomy, which cated to staff that he no doctors hoped would control longer wanted presents – he this, the statement reads. wanted a kidney instead.” When the Renal Unit It was on 2 December 1977 that he received that soughtmoved over to the new Tygerberg Hospital in 1975, Genu after early Christmas Vukile Genu received a kidney moved with it and there represent – a cadaver kidney – transplant at Tygerberg ceived vascular surgery bewhich still works perfectly Hospital 40 years ago. cause of blood vessel probfine to this day! The youngster was admitted to Karl Bre- lems and haemodialysis.
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This meant the young boy practically lived at the hospital and received schooling there over the next three years, according to the statement. That same young man is currently a teacher at a school in Bityi near Mthatha, and is the father of five children. He still has monthly follow-ups with Prof. Mkhuseli Mashiyi, head of the Renal Unit at Mthatha General Hospital. “I’m feeling great and don’t have any problems with my kidneys. They function 130%,” Genu says. V What is your opinion on this article? Let us know at briewe@tygerburger.co.za.
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