University of Iowa Health Care transplant surgeon Ramy El-Diwany recently performed the first robotic living donor ...

University of Iowa Health Care says a recent surgical milestone could expand access to life-saving kidney transplants across the state.Transplant surgeon Ramy E ...

The risk of perioperative mortality for living kidney donors has dropped in the past decade, 30-year national registry data indicated. From 2013 to 2022, only five living kidney donors died within 90 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed 70% of living kidney donors were satisfied with follow-up care. Further, 66% or donors wanted ...

Live donor kidney transplantation was first applied as a clinical strategy in pediatric transplantation because of the disparate wait by children compared with adults for cadaveric donor kidneys. As ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — WVU Medicine and the WVU Medicine Transplant Alliance successfully performed the first-ever living donor kidney transplant in the hospital system recently. Dr. Rajeev Sharma, ...

The FDA and the Health Resources and Services Administration have sent out a joint alert telling providers that Weck Hem-o-Lok ligating clips should not be used for the ligation of the renal artery ...

A transplant surgeon argues in favor of removing kidneys before donor death. June 6, 2012— -- The severe shortage of viable organs for transplantation in the U.S. has led a transplant surgeon to ...

A population-based cohort study evaluated the long-term scrotal surgery rates after laparoscopic nephrectomy in male living kidney donors compared with nondonors. The findings revealed that the ...

The risk of death for people who donate a kidney for transplantation — already small a decade ago — has dropped by more than half since then, a new study shows. Each year, roughly 6,000 Americans ...