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Baltimore resident Michelle Middlekauf recently donated a kidney to her father at UMMC. She was among the first have a scarless, single-incision kidney removal surgery. UMMC is the third hospital in the United States to offer this procedure, in which the kidney is removed through the navel. Hear what Michelle, whose only sign of surgery when she left the hospital was a Band-Aid on her belly button, has to say about her experience.