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  2. Kidney transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Kidney transplantation is a life-extending procedure. [87] The typical patient will live 10 to 15 years longer with a kidney transplant than if kept on dialysis. [88] The increase in longevity is greater for younger patients, but even 75-year-old recipients (the oldest group for which there is data) gain an average four more years of life.

  3. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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    Carroll Shelby received a heart transplant in 1990, then in 1996, a living donor kidney transplant from his son. Carroll died May 10, 2012, at the age of 89. Heart: 1990; Kidney: 1996 Heart: 22 years; Kidney: 16 years [32] Cal Stoll (1923-2000) American football player and coach. Heart: 1987 Heart: 13 years [33] Frank Torre (1931–2014)

  4. Kidney paired donation - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, Garet and Jan Hil founded the National Kidney Registry (NKR) after their daughter (age 10) lost her kidney function and needed a transplant. Both parents were incompatible and could not donate to their daughter, who later, after an extensive donor search, received a living donor kidney from her compatible cousin.

  5. Adding stem cells to a kidney transplant could get patients ...

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    A novel approach to organ transplantation allowed patients to wean off anti-rejection drugs after two years, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial presented Monday.

  6. 2,470 Black transplant patients get new kidney after medical ...

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    UNOS tells Scripps News 14,701 patients received credit for extra time, with a median of 1.7 years of time, and 2,470 patients have received a kidney transplant after they got credit for more time ...

  7. Devoted mom uses unconventional method to find daughter a kidney

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    When Karol Franks' 29-year-old daughter, Jenna, was diagnosed with kidney failure, the family tried everything to find a donor. After years on the donor waiting list, the family still had.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Organ donation in the United States prison population

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    For example, the estimated cost of a kidney transplant is about $111,000. [10] A prisoner's dialysis treatments are estimated to cost a prison $120,000 per year. [11] Because donor organs are in short supply, there are more people waiting for a transplant than available organs.