Extraperitoneal placement of the renal graft into iliac fossa. A, The incision is depicted ... Redrawn from: Whelchel JD. Renal transplantation, Vol. 14. In: Grabar GB (ed.). Anesthesia for ...

BOSTON -- Exposure to high temperatures may be renally taxing for kidney transplant recipients, a researcher reported here. Among nearly 64,000 recipients from 250 transplant centers around the U ...

For a person diagnosed with kidney failure, a transplant gives a new lease of life. However, a study published in the Bhutan Health Journal reveals that many kidney transplant recipients in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The JCI CCPC accreditation signifies that St. Luke’s Kidney Transplant Program meets the highest international standards. JCI, recognized globally for its rigorous evaluation processes ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However, her immune system rejected the organ. Doctors removed the kidney on ...

In a leading-edge approach, the research team analyzed a large, anonymized dataset of kidney offers, linking individual clinician data from on-call records of 15 transplant centers to national ...

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains a distant goal, but doctors took some hope since the pig kidney did its blood-filtering work ...