Surgeon Implants Plastic Artery So Patient Can Continue Dialysis.

The Daily Telegraph (UK)  (11/28, Adams) reports on a new surgery that one surgeon "believes...has the potential to give" certain patients "years of extra life -- possibly buying time for a kidney transplant." The procedure has only been performed on one patient so far. In the procedure, a women who "had endured so much dialysis that she had run out of suitable blood vessels to 'tap' to clean her blood" was given "a foot-long plastic artery enabling dialysis once again."