Nearly eight months after suffering a seizure caused by undetected kidney failure, 13-year-old Deziree Del Toro and her ...

The approach is an auto-transplant of progenitor cells obtained via kidney biopsy and then reintroduced back into the kidney where they migrate to damaged kidney tissue, averting disease progression.

[9] If the kidney biopsy were abnormal, then the father should not be a donor. If the biopsy were normal (the father was spared Alport's), then the father's transplanted kidney is at risk of ...

or even a subtle "feeling" of pressure around the transplanted kidney. These self-assessment strategies are reemphasized during subsequent clinic visits. Diagnosis of a urine leak is verified by ...

In a groundbreaking medical procedure for Kidney patients, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, marking a significant ...

Surgeons have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient - the first procedure of its kind - a US hospital has announced. Richard Slayman of Massachusetts ...

Looney has not had a normal life for some time. She was among more than 90,000 people who are currently on the waiting list for a kidney transplant in the US. “If I listened to the negatives and ...