A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the organ.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

Kidneys are the most transplanted organ in Germany. According to the German Organ Transplantation Foundation, a total of ...

Biotech company eGenesis recently announced its implanted a pig kidney into a second human patient. This animal-to-human organ transplant ... the risk of organ rejection and cross-species infection.

The demand is correspondingly high: in 2023, 6,513 patients were on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. A serious risk for patients who have already received a transplant is rejection of the ...

MANHASSET, NY -- Doctors at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York performed a rare three-organ transplant procedure all in one. Our sister station WABC-TV spoke to the 47-year-old ...

Facing heart, kidney and liver failure in late 2024, the Hollis resident’s only hope was a rare and highly unusual triple transplant. The odds were against him. "But it happened. Miracles exist ...

Immediate kidney transplant rejection and associated preformed antibodies. In Advance in Transplantation: Proceedings of the First International Congress of the Transplantation Society, Paris, 27 ...

CHICAGO — A man who is trying to get his brother a life-saving transplant will soon be released ... Jose Alfredo Gonzalez, to a kidney dialysis appointment. Gonzalez had served as his brother ...

they are also asking immigration officers to consider releasing him on humanitarian parole so he could stay for up to a year in the United States to complete the kidney transplant. “Relief in ...