The Latest Breaking News from Kidney Transplant

Ciaran Calderwood, 27, was gobsmacked to receive a signed letter from the Gers goalie after getting a new kidney.

A Stirling man, who has been waiting several years for a kidney transplant has urged people not to be frightened about donating a kidney. Peter Donaldson, 51, who undergoes dialysis three times a week at Forth Valley Royal Hospital, took ill out of

William Verden, 17, returns home after weeks under sedation following a kidney transplant that his mum had to fight for - without the life-saving surgery, medics predicted he could be dead in a year

A life convict in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots has sought the suspension of his sentence for transplant liver and Kidney transplants. The appellant was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court in 2018. Another convict was awarded the death sentence. Read more on…

Dr Anup Kumar, who lead the surgery, said it involved a keyhole procedure as opposed to a 10-12 cm long incision that increases the risk of infection, hernia, and other complications. Read more on Dynamite News:

The patient, who was undergoing transplant for the second time, faced incompatibility with the donor on two fronts

Health bosses at Manchester University NHS Foundation in England, in the U.K., refused to give the young boy a transplant.

Jaxon Green, 6, was diagnosed with kidney disease the day he was born. His illness meant that for years his life would depend on daily dialysis. And because his family lives in Tamaqua, a rural Pennsylvania town, his diagnosis also meant taking frequent two-hour trips to Philadelphia to see the…

A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization called the Intractable Disease Patient Support Association is suspected of having facilitated a kidney transplant that used a trafficked organ from a living donor overseas. The Yomiuri Shimbun asked experts in the relevant legal and medical systems for their opinion on this matter. In this installment,…

Pediatric nephrology is a niche field — and specialists are not spread out evenly across the country

In a case of suspected organ trafficking in living donor kidney transplants, a nonprofit organization in Japan had planned transplants in Sri Lanka this year and told an overseas coordinator it would send "two patients [at intervals] for a total of about 10 patients," The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned from…