Kidney surgery

Post Kidney transplant hospital stay is a crucial phase in your recovery. Click to get acquainted with the aspects that define this phase.

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.

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.

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

My X-ray after kidney stone surgery.

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.

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