Word: glomeruli
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...heart disease. Of 19 other identical-twin transplants, 17 made a good start. But over the years, three patients have died of recurrent kidney disease. "So now we know," says Dr. Moore, "that the critical factor is glomerulonephritis [a form of kidney inflammation involving the small capillary loops or glomeruli], and that these people have a tendency to get the same disease again, and it attacks the transplanted kidney...
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