Kidney exchange between Portugal and Italy

 Italy-Portugal cross transplants. that click that saved two

"Thanks to a complex work of intervention planning and logistics, managed by the National Transplant Center, the Veneto Regional Transplant Center and the Portuguese institutions, the kidney of the Italian donor was removed in Vicenza and transplanted in Porto in a 41-year-old man while the Italian patient was transplanted with a kidney donated by a 36-year-old woman. The organs were harvested in the two centers simultaneously on the morning of 20 July. The Portuguese kidney arrived at Treviso airport at 2.10 pm on board a Lusitanian Air Force flight: the military delivered the organ to the regional transplant coordinator of the Veneto, Dr. Giuseppe Feltrin, receiving the Italian kidney in exchange. The 118 of Vicenza immediately transported the organ to San Bortolo where the transplantation began immediately. Both surgeries were successful and all recipients and donors went home in excellent condition."