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Kent Lunginbuhl first started thinking about giving his brother, David, a kidney six years ago when he discovered David had a chronic kidney disease. (...)
Kent Lunginbuhl first started thinking about giving his brother, David, a kidney six years ago when he discovered David had a chronic kidney disease. (...)

Kent Lunginbuhl first started thinking about giving his brother, David, a kidney six years ago when he discovered David had a chronic kidney disease. (...)

Date5/31/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Kent Lunginbuhl first started thinking about giving his brother, David, a kidney six years ago when he discovered David had a chronic kidney disease. There is a 25 per cent chance of this sort of match between siblings, doctors say.
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June is organ donor month in Metro and David Lunginbuhl, 41, is celebrating it with greatest gift he has ever received, a new kidney from his brother (...)
June is organ donor month in Metro and David Lunginbuhl, 41, is celebrating it with greatest gift he has ever received, a new kidney from his brother (...)
5/31/1978
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital
11/23/1966
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital
11/23/1966
Susan Nasmith: She found out Christmas Eve a kidney matching hers had been found
Susan Nasmith: She found out Christmas Eve a kidney matching hers had been found
1/16/1981
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital. Arthur van Zandt (lef(...)
Quartet with new lease on life, Four men who have had kidney transplant operations are recuperating in Toronto Western Hospital. Arthur van Zandt (lef(...)
11/23/1966
Kidney recipient has baby, One of the first kidney-transplant patients in Canada to have a baby, Grace Covert of Barrie, proudly shows her husband, Do(...)
Kidney recipient has baby, One of the first kidney-transplant patients in Canada to have a baby, Grace Covert of Barrie, proudly shows her husband, Do(...)
7/31/1975
Kidney transplant patient 16-year-old Paul Pope who received new kidney on June 28, leaves Toronto General Hospital yesterday for home in Barrie
Kidney transplant patient 16-year-old Paul Pope who received new kidney on June 28, leaves Toronto General Hospital yesterday for home in Barrie
8/28/1968
In sixteen years the confident smile on the face of June Peters hasn't faded, even though a kidney transplant failed in '82 and she has lost both legs through kidney damage
In sixteen years the confident smile on the face of June Peters hasn't faded, even though a kidney transplant failed in '82 and she has lost both legs through kidney damage
5/29/1984
Playing Happily indoors, Youmma Habash 12, left, can now also swim and skate thanks to a kidney operation at the Hospital for Sick Children last March(...)
Playing Happily indoors, Youmma Habash 12, left, can now also swim and skate thanks to a kidney operation at the Hospital for Sick Children last March(...)
12/9/1971
Wrapping Gifts for Christmas, Ivana Bianchet, 13, will be able to eat cake for the first time since she received a new kidney in a joint operation wit(...)
Wrapping Gifts for Christmas, Ivana Bianchet, 13, will be able to eat cake for the first time since she received a new kidney in a joint operation wit(...)
12/9/1971
Allan Brown received Kidney from his mother, Ruth
Allan Brown received Kidney from his mother, Ruth
3/4/1994
Awaiting a kidney transplant, police inspector Arnim Mondesir of Trinidad smiles at his daughter Charmaine, 20 months, in the Metro home of a relative(...)
Awaiting a kidney transplant, police inspector Arnim Mondesir of Trinidad smiles at his daughter Charmaine, 20 months, in the Metro home of a relative(...)
3/18/1975