A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

Among patients on hemodialysis, those who developed gout were 6% less likely to be wait-listed for a kidney transplant than ...

Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However, her immune system rejected the organ. Doctors removed the kidney on ...

Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits future transplant possibilities. Towana Looney lived for more than four months with ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

Dublin, April 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Kidney Transplant Rejection - Market Insight, Epidemiology, and Market Forecast - 2034" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Patients seeking a kidney transplant must first complete a series of medical tests to assess their eligibility for the procedure and ensure they are healthy enough to take immunosuppressant ...

In a leading-edge approach, the research team analyzed a large, anonymized dataset of kidney offers, linking individual clinician data from on-call records of 15 transplant centers to national ...

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 ...