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  2. Kidney transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Graft and patient survival after transplantation have also improved over time, with 10 year graft survival rates for deceased donor transplants increasing from 42.3% in 1996–1999 to 53.6% in 2008-2011 and 10 year patient survival rate increasing from 60.5% in 1996–1999 to 66.9% in 2008–2011. [79]

  3. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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    After kidney failure in late 2006, he underwent an unsuccessful transplant in January 2007, followed by a successful one from his father two months later. He returned to action with Werder Bremen in November, and played at Euro 2008, becoming the first kidney transplant patient to play in a major football finals. March 13, 2007 [47] [48] Jimmy ...

  4. Organ donation after medical assistance in dying - Wikipedia

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    Organs regularly transplanted include lungs, heart, cornea, pancreas, and kidneys. Modes of donation are an altruistic living donation of a non-vital organ (generally a kidney) and post-mortal organ donation (PMOD). PMOD can be subdivided into donation after brain death (DBD) and donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). [5]

  5. Organ transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Overall postoperative complications after kidney transplantation occur in approximately 12% to 25% of kidney transplant patients. [ 34 ] Following a transplant, recipients will be given lab draws , ultrasounds , and other tests to see if the transplanted organ is being accepted .

  6. Woman recovering after risky pig kidney transplant. It could ...

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    The kidney of a full-grown pig is bigger than that of a person's, so an adolescent pig is used, and the growth hormone receptor is eliminated to keep it from growing to its full size after the ...

  7. Organ donation in Australia - Wikipedia

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    First living related kidney transplant (identical twins) US: 1955: First heart valve allograft into descending aorta: Canada: 1962: First kidney transplant from a deceased donor: US: 1965: Australia's first successful (living) kidney transplant: Queen Elizabeth hospital. South Australia: 1967: First successful liver transplant: US: 1967: First ...

  8. Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital ...

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    Out of the 100,000 people awaiting an organ transplant each year, 80,000 of them are waiting for kidneys, according to Siegel, but this type of transplant could also extend to hearts and livers ...

  9. First person to receive pig kidney dies 7 weeks after transplant

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    Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old man who has end-stage renal disease, is the first patient to receive a kidney transplant from a pig successfully.