Reports that a transplant patient died after receiving a diseased kidney have been strenuously denied by St Georges Hospital, which carried out the operation.
A national newspaper claimed Dhanapalan Asbury, a 57-year-old book-keeper who lived in Raynes Park, died last month after receiving the kidney at St Georges Hospital, Tooting.
It stated the kidney came from a donor who was discovered to have cancer after analysis of tissues following her death. By then, several of her organs had already been transplanted. But medical director at St Georges, Professor Paul Jones, said that although the kidney was later discovered to be cancerous, it was not the primary cause of the mans death.
No further details were available as the Guardian went to press.
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