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

Kenya’s first kidney transplant was performed in 1978. In 1984, the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi’s largest public ...

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 ...

Three couples are celebrating a very special bond after going through a life-saving six-person kidney exchange.

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

Vicki Haggen is one of the world’s longest-surviving kidney transplant patients after her sister donated one of her kidneys ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

In this video, an expert discusses study results presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session that assessed sex-based differences observed in end-stage kidney disease after heart ...

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 ...

At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

Medical Director of the Living Donor Kidney Program at Tampa General Hospital’s (TGH) Transplant Institute, Dr. Pranjal Jain, ...