News

India faces a critical shortage in organ transplants, with only a fraction of needed kidney transplants performed annually. A ...
N ASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A 14-year-old from Murfreesboro received a successful kidney transplant after desperately ...
Moyer’s wife did a similar paired exchange 20 years ago, as she was not a compatible match for him. Rather than waiting seven to 10 years for a cadaver’s kidney, if Hershey donated her kidney ...
“The GMCH has successfully done two cadaveric organ transplants, where kidneys from brain dead patients are extracted and implanted in kidney failure patients.Living donor kidney transplants ...
In October 1987, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) established a national kidney-sharing program to increase the number of HLA-matched transplantations. Since then, over 7500 cadaveric ki ...
But there’s one problem: The waitlist for a cadaver kidney is long — really long. In the Chicago area, a kidney patient can expect to wait six to eight years for his or her name to be called.
At the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital 19 cadaver-kidney transplants and 1 liver transplant have been performed, in addition to experience with cadaver sources for skin, bone, cornea and arteries.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Wilson family is now in a desperate search to find a living kidney donor to save their son’s life, after his first kidney transplant failed. Leaven Wilson, a 13 ...
There was a cadaver kidney headed VanderPoel’s way at one point too, until she tested positive for COVID. “It’s been a lot of ups and downs for me,” said VanderPoel.
Shawn Kortes was recently put on a National Kidney Foundation wait list, but that’s only for cadaver organs and the wait can be years. That’s time that Kortes is not sure he has.
AIIMS Bhopal has set a historic milestone in its kidney transplant program by discharging its first cadaveric kidney transplant patient in a healthy condition. Executive Director, Professor (Dr ...