DETROIT, MI – After years of illness, a Michigan woman is recovering after receiving a rare two-organ transplant at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital, one of just 56 such procedures performed in the U.S.
Briana Dery, 33, of Twining became the first patient in Michigan to undergo a combined intestinal and kidney transplant when surgeons at Henry Ford Health completed the 10-hour operation on Jan. 14.
The procedure is considered one of the most complex in modern medicine, in part because intestinal transplants themselves are uncommon and carry a high risk of rejection…