"He was very worried about them, " said Jill Chadwick, spokeswoman for the University of Kansas Hospital.

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The University of Kansas Hospital was treating six people injured in the blast, said spokesman Bob Hallinan.

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The chances of unrelated people being this close of a match for kidney donation is about 1 in 30, 000, according to the University of Kansas Hospital, where the surgery was performed.

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