Kidney surgery

Richard Slayman, 62, is the first patient to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Two weeks after the procedure, he was well enough to be discharged, doctors said.

2nd day after open heart surgery, put on 25 lbs of water weight my kidneys were struggling.

The surgery, which took place at Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive Transplant Center, took less than two hours.

Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the world to successfully perform a robotic single-port kidney transplant, which enables all surgical instruments and the donor kidney to be placed through one small abdominal incision.

My X-ray after kidney stone surgery.

A kidney transplant is a procedure where a new donor kidney is placed in your body. This is typically done to treat kidney failure or kidney disease.

3 hours out of surgery

THE NEW YORK TIMES | Tiff Fehr “I planned to ask brief questions about the robot the morning of the surgery ... Did it make cool noises?...

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