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 ...

For a person diagnosed with kidney failure, a transplant gives a new lease of life. However, a study published in the Bhutan Health Journal reveals that many kidney transplant recipients in the ...

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 ...

More information: Larissa Myaskovsky et al, Kidney Transplant Fast Track and Likelihood of Waitlisting and Transplant, JAMA Internal Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0043 ...

World Kidney Day 2025: Know the pros and cons of dialysis and kidney transplant, to understand which procedure is better for curing kidney-related ailments. When kidney functions drop to a ...

A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT. TODAY, WE’RE SPEAKING WITH THE WOMAN BEHIND THE EFFORT TO HELP COVER THE SIGNIFICANT COST OF SEAN’S TRANSPLANT AND RECOVERY. DANIELLE STEIN. WELCOME, DANIELLE. THANK YOU.

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

Prior to the transplant, Andrews suffered from end-stage kidney disease and required two years of daily dialysis, the hospital said. He suffered a heart attack in July 2023 and faced a long wait ...

Less than a year after becoming the first hospital in the world to transplant a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital successfully completed its ...

Prior to the transplant, Andrews suffered from end-stage kidney disease and required two years of daily dialysis, the hospital said. He suffered a heart attack in July 2023 and faced a long wait ...

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.