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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abdominal transplant chief Kenneth Chavin of Temple Health says getting a cadaver kidney can now take four to seven years. A living donor means a transplant sooner and slightly better long-term ...

Now, just months into her new role as a mother, Katrina is undergoing dialysis 4 times a week while waiting for a kidney transplant. The family holds out hope that a match, and a second chance, ...