Italian doctors have achieved a world first by successful transplanting a kidney in the place of the spleen in a six-year-old girl. The child had been on dialysis since birth because of a rare kidney anomaly and a malformation of her abdominal blood vessels.

The youngster, who was not named, had been unable to either urinate or drink, a statement released by the Molinette hospital in Turin said. t added: 'In order to create the necessary space for the new kidney, a revolutionary and innovative technique was applied, with the removal of the spleen.

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