Pennsylvania Woman Receives Rare 5th Kidney Transplant

A 44-year-old Pennsylvania woman was reported in stable condition at Lehigh Valley Hospital after becoming only the sixth known person worldwide to receive a fifth kidney transplant.

Betty Senger of Allentown Pennsylvania received the kidney from her brother Andrew Kemmerer, 40, of Northampton.

Senger was 14 when her kidneys began to fail from reflux nephropathy.

Senger underwent her first transplant in 1974 when she was 16, receiving a kidney from her mother. The organ didn't last the day.

The next three kidneys came from cadaver donors. The second kidney failed quickly; the third kidney lasted five years; and the fourth lasted 10.