To stay alive, patients must choose between kidney transplants, hemodialysis (HD), or peritoneal dialysis (PD ... is placed into your abdominal cavity. Over 4 to 6 hours, it absorbs waste ...

Kidney failure affects millions worldwide, and the number keeps rising. Each year, the global population of patients with end ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Renal artery stenosis is the narrowing of one or both blood vessels to the kidneys. The renal arteries bring blood from the heart to the kidneys to help filter ...

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 ...

A kidney transplant patient has died in Ohio after receiving an organ infected with rabies. The recipient received care in Lucas County, Ohio, in December 2024, the Toledo-Lucas County Health ...

Hyderabad: In a groundbreaking achievement, urologists at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) have successfully performed the institute’s first-ever robotic kidney transplant ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Dana Bottoms is feeling a renewed sense of hope after receiving a kidney transplant — a procedure she has awaited for four years. “I can’t believe it’s actually here ...

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 of those organs on Long Island ...

With efforts underway to expand access to the kidney transplant waiting list to more patients, including many with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), new research underscored the corresponding ...

Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. He and her doctors decided it would be less risky to remove the pig's kidney than to try saving it. "We did the safe thing ...

The treatment involves three main approaches: haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and a kidney transplant. The treatment option depends on the patient's condition and the progression of kidney ...