Additionally, this was only the second instance of en-bloc kidney transplantation in the state, a highly specialized surgical ...

It is the second instance of en bloc kidney transplantation in the state, a highly specialised surgical approach was taken ...

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits future transplant possibilities. Towana Looney lived for more than four months with ...

Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig. By Gina Kolata On the ...

More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, most who need a kidney, and thousands die waiting. 3 Her body began rejecting the pig kidney after a record 130 days.

The transplant is part of a multi-patient study and the first done on three patients who were diagnosed with kidney failure and listed as needing a transplant, eGenesis officials said in an online ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

Photo: The identical Herrick twins were the first participants in a successful kidney transplant. The idea of transplanting organs is not new. It can be found in myths of the ancient Greeks and ...