That’s because we have two but only need one, and the kidney ... years after the transplant; his death was unrelated to that procedure. Hawai‘i’s first living-donor transplant was in 1969. “Donor ...

For those with kidney ... small incisions, which helps with faster recovery,” she says. Full recovery can take up to six weeks, but many people start feeling better around three weeks after ...

How long do you expect to live? In reality, it is likely to be close to the current adult life expectancy of about 70 to 80 years. Yet according to leading population expert James Vaupel, a baby ...

Even so, severe complications are relatively uncommon, affecting only around 8% of surgeries ... Surgical site pain, bruising, and swelling are considered normal parts of the healing process after ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

Over nearly 5 years of follow-up, kidney transplant recipients exposed to hot temperatures also had a 30% higher risk for a ...

Among nearly 64,000 recipients from 250 transplant centers around the U.S., every additional ... studies examine if eGFR levels rebound after kidney transplant recipients move from a high-heat ...

As Dana and Damon Bottoms recover from kidney transplant surgery, they're trying to let other people know how easy it can be ...

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 ...

But life isn’t the same one year after receiving a life-saving kidney transplant ... lifesaving treatment is going to allow me to be around long enough, as long as they'll have me, to do ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told Newsday.