Kidney articles
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Doctors warns of serious health risks of some spicy ramenas woman is sent to the ER with kidney stones
Doctors warned the ready-to-eat noodles contained high amounts of salt. These could lead to the formation of crystals that cause stones, they said. READ MORE: Tell-tale signs YOU could have a kidney stone, according to docs
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Kidney from pig transplanted into deathly ill New Jersey woman — and begins working almost immediately
A New Jersey woman is alive and improving after undergoing experimental transplant surgery involving a kidney from a genetically modified pig.Earlier this month, Lisa Pisano — a 54-year-old grandmother from Cookstown, New Jersey, about 20 miles southeast of Trenton — was practically on death's doorstep. She was in desperate need of a kidney transplant, but antibodies in her tissues made finding a match nearly impossible. She was also in heart failure, but because she was on dialysis, doctors...
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Woman becomes 1st patient to undergo combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant
In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.