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Kidney donated by Zietsman may fail

Johannesburg - Doctors were worried on Sunday that the kidney which cabaret singer Elzabé Zietsman donated to her niece could be rejected by her body.

Zietsman's niece suffered complications after the transplant, but her mother said a biopsy showed that it's only acute kidney shock.

According to Schoeman it is something that will clear up on its own.

"The kidney does secrete urine, but not nearly enough. We were very worried, but are now full of hope again after we talked to the doctors."

Schoeman has been struggling with kidney failure since her teens and at age 14 received a kidney from her mother.

Real trooper

The kidney, as well as a cadaver kidney implanted afterwards, was rejected after about two years as a result of infections.

According to Schoeman her daughter is still in intensive care at the Jacaranda Hospital in Pretoria, but she is doing very well.

"She laughs a lot and is full of jokes. That one is a real trooper."

Zietsman was transferred from the intensive care unit to a general ward on Saturday, but said she is still suffering from pain.

"The doctors told me I will be discharged after five days, but judging on how I feel now, I don't know whether it will happen.

"It is me who is lying here in pain, that other one is up and awake," she jokingly added. 
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