After years of waiting, longtime NBA guard Nate Robinson has a new kidney. The three-time Slam Dunk Contest champion had been ...
Former NBA player Nate Robinson underwent a kidney transplant on Friday after dealing with renal failure for several years.
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
He underwent a cadaver renal transplant (111 mis-match) in July 2002 and received tacrolimus and prednisolone. The kidney functioned ... or family history of neurological disease.
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.
Once the clamps were removed on the transplanted kidney, it turned pink and urine flowed. This counts as the first successful living transplant in history. It gave Richard the chance to live 8 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs.
Background: Tacrolimus and cyclosporine, both calcineurin inhibitors, can cause neurological side effects ... are poorly documented following renal transplantation. Case presentation: We report ...