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Mr Semen before and after
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A white man who was given a new liver from an African-American donor has claimed that his skin is starting to turn black since the operation. Semen Gendler was in urgent need of a liver after he was diagnosed with hepatitis C and cancer.The 65-year-old inventor was told by doctors his only hope was a liver transplant.
After speaking with contacts in the United States, he arranged to fly there from his home in Krasnodar in the Krasnodar Krai, south-western Russia, to have the operation.Mr Gendler said:
"Russian doctors made it quite clear to me that if I didn't have a liver transplant I would not live."I do a lot of business in the US with partners in New York, and I asked them to help me arrange for the operation where if you have enough money it is possible to do it more quickly than in Russia.