At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

This occurs even as a significant number of offered kidneys, currently exceeding 25%, are declined for transplantation by all U.S. transplant hospitals. Clinicians at transplant centers are weighing ...

The 226 kidney-transplant recipients were bled before transplantation, and the serums tested against lymphocytes of 10 to 40 randomly selected persons. 6 On the basis of these reactions, serums ...

By Allison Detzel While José Alfredo Pacheco, a dialysis patient, desperately waits for a lifesaving kidney transplant in Illinois, his donor and brother, José Gregorio González, is being held ...

Similar to people with kidney disease, transplant recipients should only consider acetaminophen to manage post-operative pain symptoms. Again, best practices include using the lowest dose possible ...

The 47-year-old Queens resident received a heart, kidney and liver at North Shore University Hospital on Feb. 8, during the first-ever triple transplant ... once the incision is healed in the ...

The early stages of kidney damage may cause few or no symptoms. However, as damage accumulates and prevents the kidneys from functioning correctly, people may begin to notice symptoms. These may ...

I love it, life is good," she said. The 63-year-old spent decades living with a rare congenital heart disease before she received a heart transplant in October 2023. It came just two weeks after ...

Kidney Health Management Diet: Summer is here! The season brings along tons of fresh fruits and vegetables, while all of them are excellent for the health, in this article, we will talk about ...

According to the CDC, fewer than 10 people die annually from rabies in the U.S. And it happening due to organ transplants is very rare, but not unheard of; in 2013, a patient who received a kidney ...

A Michigan resident has died of rabies after apparently undergoing an organ transplant ... "In addition to the organ donor’s kidney, doctors implanted corneal grafts from the donor’s eyes ...

But Towana Looney, the third living person to receive a gene-edited pig kidney, has been doing well. She had her transplant surgery in late November of last year. “I am full of energy.