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One Of HUMC's Youngest Kidney Transplant Recipients Ever Readies For Pre-K One Of HUMC's Youngest Kidney Transplant Recipients Ever Readies For Pre-K
One Of Humc's Youngest Kidney Transplant Recipients Ever Readies For Pre-K HACKENSACK, N.J. -- When Marianny Hilario of Paterson was pregnant, her doctor told her there was a problem with her unborn son. The physician "recognized that his kidneys weren’t forming as they should,” she said. Born at 37 weeks, Kyle Lugo spent three months in neo-natal intensive care.  Just weeks ago, he became one of the youngest patients ever to undergo a kidney transplant at Hackensack University Medical Center. When Kyle was a year old, he was referred to Dr. Kenneth Lieberman, chief of Pediatric Nephrology at the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack Meridian H…

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