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The 'Transplant Games' Are About More Than Medals

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600 organ and stem cell transplant recipients competed at the European Transplant Games in Arnhem in June 2026, an Olympics-style event that has run biennially since 1978, demonstrating that advances in surgery and immunosuppression now enable transplant recipients to be physically active in ways considered impossible decades ago.

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