Christian got a transplant kidney from his father, Gene, when he was a toddler, but that failed in eight months.
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In a study from India, kidney transplant patients had crushed donor kidney tissue injected into their thymus - the body's "immune engine room" where cells can be "educated".
The 1, 000th liver and kidney transplant operations have been marked at a Scottish unit in Edinburgh.
Israeli citizen Agania Robel, who is 41, was reportedly arrested after undergoing a kidney transplant.
As a young adult, Carla suffered from serious kidney disease and, received a kidney transplant.
Lomu faced life in a wheelchair if a kidney transplant was not performed, so underwent the operation.
Tuesday, claiming it gave kickbacks to pharmacies to switch kidney transplant patients from competitors' drugs to its own.
Two years on since her life saving kidney transplant and Shagufta Sharif has spoken to her family about the issues.
Coleman also had nephritis, a potentially fatal kidney condition, and underwent several operations and a kidney transplant by the age of 5.
Coleman's first kidney transplant began to fail and he received a second at the age of 14, according to 1983 news reports.
Patients who had a kidney transplant without any kind of pre-operative treatment were not able to be weaned of the anti-rejection drug.
With this first kidney transplant a whole new vista in medicine appeared.
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Cole, who underwent a successful kidney transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, was "responding well and recuperating" Thursday, her publicist said.
Ms Ross, 49, was the 1, 000th patient to receive a kidney since the kidney transplant service transferred from the Western General Hospital in 1995.
It marked a personal milestone for Klasnic, who has resurrected his career to become the first player to recover after having a kidney transplant.
The GMC hearing heard that Dr Makkar believed he was talking to the son of a man that needed the kidney transplant and his friend.
Mr Farr says he was "lucky" to receive his kidney after a year because the average waiting time for a kidney transplant is double that.
Her father has left the family in debt to a number of loan sharks, while Ping herself is in desperate need of a kidney transplant.
Nurse Harpur repeatedly has to interrupt her work to reset an intravenous pump that malfunctions every time the patient, in for complications from a kidney transplant, flexes her arm.
Mr Chemla, who now works for one of London's biggest hospitals, St George's, jointly manages a kidney transplant unit as well as teaching and advising the government.
She says she has had multiple health problems over the years, including lung disease and a kidney transplant, but was surprised when an A1C test diagnosed Type 2 diabetes.
Mr Trayler, 44, of Church Village, south Wales, had a kidney transplant five years ago, and said he would not be alive if it was not for the ambulance service.
Jeff, who had undergone a kidney transplant in the first year of our relationship, had picked me up and tossed me across a room at that point, his most violent outburst yet.
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They offered me a kidney transplant and so were assessing my suitability for that when they realised there was something wrong with my liver too and I needed a multiple transplant.
According to an investigation by the CDC and New York city and state health officials, a kidney transplant recipient contracted the virus from a donor in an unnamed New York City hospital in 2009.
Kidney transplant recipient Sally Satel has noted that burial and cremation expenses can be provided when a body is donated to science -- as long as it isn't used to save the life of a current patient.
He remains small, with low bone density, but Soliris has stopped the attacks that destroyed his kidneys in the first place, and his dad is hoping a kidney transplant will follow and give him a normal life.
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Augustine's Hospital busted a global ring: Slum-dwellers from Brazil and Moldova were selling their organs to an Israeli-led broker network, which then used the Internet to pull together over 100 willing kidney transplant patients from Israel, Europe and the U.S. Donors and recipients, posing as relatives, were flown to South Africa and operated on by elite doctors in Durban.
It was approved for treating kidney-transplant patients in 1999.
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