Alonzo Mourning gets kidney donated by a cousin.Alonzo Mourning, former National Basketball Association National Basketball Association (NBA) U.S. professional basketball league. It was formed in 1949 by the merger of two rival organizations, the National Basketball League (founded 1937) and the Basketball Association of America (1946). (NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= ) star for the Miami Heat and, briefly, the New Jersey Nets, underwent a kidney transplant on December 18th. Mourning was released from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Medical Center on December 23rd. The kidney was donated by his 30-year-old cousin, Jason Cooper. Both patients were listed in stable condition following the transplant and released from the hospital on the same day. Mourning retired at age 33 on November 24th because of complications from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis focal segmental glomerulosclerosis n. Segmental collapse of glomerular capillaries with thickened basement membranes and increased mesangial matrix, seen sometimes in nephrotic syndrome or mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis. . He was diagnosed with the disease before the 2000-2002 NBA season when he was the starting center for the Heat. |
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