Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus has performed more than 13,000 solid organ transplants since 1963. Across its other locations, Mayo has performed more than 31,000 transplants in 60 years.
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While there are examples of long-term transplant patients who never need another kidney, two Rochester brothers who have gone 40 years without needing another operation after one donated a kidney to save the other are an anomaly.