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Twenty-two-year old Kristen McLoughlin was one of the first kidney donors in the country to have kidney removed through a single opening or incision, a new procedure called single incision laparoscopic surgery. Hear what Kristen has to say about this scarless procedure why she decided to donate, the care she received at UMMC, which has performed more living donor kidney removals than any other hospital in the country, and more.