Kidney deaths: Families wait to hear why two men died

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Final evidence on how two transplant patients died after being given kidneys infected with a meningitis-causing parasitic worm will be heard at an inquest on Thursday.

Robert "Jim" Stuart and Darren Hughes were given organs in Cardiff in 2013 from a donor who died from meningitis.

One expert told the hearing on Wednesday that his hospital had rejected the donor organs.

But Prof Christopher Watson said no-one could have foreseen the outcome.

The Cambridge professor was part of a three-person panel asked to review the case, and he told the inquest he would not have used the organs, whose donor was known to have died from meningitis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-30323602
 
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