What happens to a patient's old, damaged kidney? This is the question that most people wonder about. Let's explain what ...

The kidney transplant evaluation process starts with a visit to a transplant nephrologist and a transplant surgeon. These doctors will discuss your health history and physically examine you. You will ...

Looney's relative success could lead to more procedures for alternative organ transplants. An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body ...

Alexis Conell didn't think anything was wrong or experience symptoms until she learned she'd lost kidney function. Now a ...

A recent study achieved a landmark breakthrough in pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation by studying the immune system's rejection response up close. Dr. Valentin Goutaudier and his team from the ...

NEW YORK – In an experimental procedure, a genetically modified pig kidney successfully functioned in a human body for about two months, the longest documented case of its kind. Researchers at NYU ...

In this video, Richard Knight, MD, FACS, discusses the importance of living donation for meeting U.S. kidney transplant ...

Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney ...