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2. Kidney transplantation - Wikipedia

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   Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ.

3. Renal replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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   Likewise, in certain acute illnesses or trauma resulting in acute kidney injury, a person could very well survive for many years, with relatively good kidney function, before needing intervention again, as long as they had good response to dialysis, they got a kidney transplant fairly quickly if needed, their body did not reject the ...

4. Samuel Zaltzman - Wikipedia

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   In 1967, Zaltzman returned to Mexico and was the head of the dialysis and kidney transplant service at the National Institute of Cardiology [7] of Mexico along with Herman Villarreal. [6] Together, they performed the first kidney transplant, with an average survival rate of 8 years, in 1968. [2]

5. List of orthotopic procedures - Wikipedia

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   Orthotopic liver transplantation, in which the previous liver is removed and the transplant is placed at that location in the body; Orthotopic heart transplantation; Orthotopic kidney transplantation. [1] When organs are transplanted to a different anatomical location the procedure is said to be heterotopic (e.g. heterotopic heart transplantation).

6. Kidney paired donation - Wikipedia

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   Kidney paired donation (KPD), or paired exchange, is an approach to living donor kidney transplantation where patients with incompatible donors swap kidneys to receive a compatible kidney. KPD is used in situations where a potential donor is incompatible.

7. A Man Has Received the First Pig-Kidney Transplant - AOL

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   T he first reported person in the world has received a genetically modified pig kidney. A transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully performed the groundbreaking, four-hour ...