Kidney disease ranges from mild dysfunction treatable with medication to severe cases requiring dialysis or transplant. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) may necessitate temporary dialysis, while End ...

The transplant is part of a multi-patient study and the first done on three patients who were diagnosed with kidney failure and listed as needing a transplant, eGenesis officials said in an online ...

Use of GLP-1 receptor agonists was associated with improved survival and reduced graft loss among kidney transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – A heart and kidney transplant recipient is now sharing her journey with students at Chicopee High School. Lauren Meizo was given a second chance at life thanks to two ...

At this advanced stage, patients either receive a kidney transplant or remain on dialysis — an expensive and often debilitating treatment — for the rest of their lives. Of the more than 90,000 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - One Wilmington woman is looking for a kidney transplant as she battles stage 5 kidney disease. Haley Halford was diagnosed in 2021 after going to the doctor for chronic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON -- Exposure to high temperatures may be renally taxing for kidney transplant recipients, a researcher reported here. Among nearly 64,000 recipients from 250 transplant centers around the U ...

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 ...

He underwent haemodialysis for months. And a live-related renal allograft transplant was performed in March 2025. The procedure was complex, but it was smooth, Dr. Gowri Shankar added and said ...