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Human Error Leads to Medical Malpractice Suit in UPMC Kidney Transplant

 The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is known as a leading American health care provider. Yet, despite UPMC's high ranking in hospital rating publications, serious medical errors can and do occur in its facilities.

In early 2011, Michael Yocabet received a kidney from longtime girlfriend Christina Mecannic in an operation performed at UPMC Presbyterian. Although the surgery was completed without incident, it was later discovered that the donated kidney was infected with hepatitis C, which was passed to Yocabet. As a result, UPMC's living kidney donor transplant program was shut down for two months, and both Yocabet and Mecannic filed recent medical malpractice lawsuits in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.

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