When you’re in your 30s, married to the love of your life with four beautiful children, the last thing you think you’ll hear ...

Emergency transplants haven't yielded survival past two months — although a woman transplanted last month so far is faring ...

Aims: We assessed cat plasma and urine HIF-1α (pHIF-1α/uHIF-1α) concentrations and urine NTBI (uNTBI) concentrations to investigate their relationship with chronic kidney disease (CKD) severity.

Omega-3 fats may help reduce fat levels (triglycerides) in the blood and may also lower blood pressure, according to the National Kidney Foundation. If you have CKD, you may need to keep an eye ...

Combined liver–kidney transplantation must consider surgical logistics for both the liver and the kidney grafts. The most common surgical procedure of combined liver–kidney transplantation is ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Comprehensive Transplant Center set a new institution transplant record, performing a synchronized chain of 20 surgeries to transform ...

Towana Looney became the first living recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney transplant ... a particular risk of incubating new viruses, but cats, too, pose a similar risk because of their ...

Looney's transplant is the third time a kidney from a gene-edited pig has been transplanted into a living human, but prior transplants have been for people who were brain dead or at high risk of ...

When she underwent transplant surgery last month, Towana Looney, 53, became just the third living person to receive a pig kidney in the United States. So far, Looney is recuperating well.

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 ...