The surgeon accused of transplanting unhealthy kidneys at Uwajima Tokushukai Hospital in Ehime Prefecture also helped remove one from a seriously ill patient in Kagoshima around September 2000, medical sources said Monday.
The kidney was most likely transplanted, the sources said.
The operation was performed on a woman around 70 years old at Kagoshima Tokushukai Hospital who was suffering from an aneurysmatic kidney, or one that forms a sac in the tissue due to injury or disease.