BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine international Luciano Galletti has received a kidney transplant from his father, a retired professional footballer who played in Argentina in the 1970s and 80s.

After a donated kidney was accidently thrown away during a surgery last month, the University of Toledo Medical Center hopes new safety systems will prevent this incident from happening ever again.

ST. CHARLES, MO. (KTVI) – Vivian Lemire has Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease. It is a rare genetic disease that…

DAGUPAN CITY — The government-owned Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) here is all set to undertake its first-ever kidney transplant from a living donor to a recipient on Monday, starting at 10 a.m. The names of both the patient and the kidney donor have …

A nurse accidentally flushed away a healthy human kidney while the intended recipient awaited a life-saving transplant operation.

The decision was never in doubt for Daniel Celaya. His father, Luis Celaya, was in need of a kidney transplant.

Putting it mildly, Karen Raymer has been through the wringer and then some the last few years. She reads this column in the Clear Lake (Calif.) Observer American. "What I have is polycystic kidney disease," said 44-year-old Raymer. "It&#…

A surgeon reviewing the University of Toledo Medical Center's kidney tansplant program called the actions of the nurse who accidentally disposed a usable kidney last month "baffling."

A Southern Illinois University School of Medicine pediatrician is studying the leading cause of long-term failure of kidney transplants in children by following cases of children treated in St. Louis. Dr. Michael Seifert, who cares for patients at St. …

TOLEDO, Ohio — A Texas transplant surgeon hired to evaluate the kidney transplant program at the University of Toledo Medical Center says the accidental disposal of a viable kidney by a nurse was a “baffling” act.