article_snippet: In a rare series of interlinked operations, 12 patients will participate in a 'kidney swap' at a San Francisco hospital.
article_snippet: The procedures - which take around three hours - will be performed Thursday and Friday Friday at California Pacific Medical Center, with six organ donors and six recipients.
article_snippet: Back-to-back: In a rare series of interlinked operations, six patients are getting kidney transplants from six donors at a San Francisco hospital .
article_snippet: This kind of pairing continues down the line four more times until all six kidney patients get transplants, the San Francisco station reported.
article_snippet: Ready to go: The procedures - which take around three hours - will be performed Thursday and Friday at California Pacific Medical Center (pictured), with six organ donors and six recipients .
article_snippet: Three transplants are planned for Thursday and the remaining three on Friday.
article_snippet: More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are awaiting kidney transplants.
article_snippet: Most on the waiting list need the transplant within three to five years and many have died waiting.
highlights_snippet: The procedures will take place on Thursday and Friday at California Pacific Medical Center .
  