WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a ...

On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or xenotransplants, over the last ...

Last year, surgeons in the US carried out the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a male subject, who was able to be discharged from hospital and survived for around two ...

which hit the headlines earlier this year when it was used to prevent rejection of the world's first transplant of a pig kidney into a human patient. The results with the first two of a planned ...

Covenant Health is now offering the only kidney transplant surgery program in the region, according to a Covenant news release issued Monday. The Kidney Transplant Program at Covenant, led by ...

Potential kidney recipients are prioritized by time spent on wait-lists as well as tissue-type similarity, and can accept or reject any given transplant offer. Over the last decade-plus ...

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 device offers a comprehensive, portable solution from end-to-end, allowing transplant teams to continuously perfuse the kidney and monitor key perfusion metrics in real-time through a mobile ...

Kidney transplants are usually carried out ... Another option available across the globe is a swap transplant, in which kidneys are exchanged between two pairs of donors and recipients who are ...