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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Transplant Discussion => Topic started by: Falkenbach on October 26, 2007, 02:13:53 AM

Title: 36 year-old kidney transplant
Post by: Falkenbach on October 26, 2007, 02:13:53 AM
Hope the pic isn't too big for the screen, or too small to be read. This is from the Herald Sun, a Melbourne (Vic, Australia) newspaper.
Title: Re: 36 year-old kidney transplant
Post by: paddbear0000 on October 26, 2007, 01:07:52 PM
That was a great article. Thanks!
Title: Re: 36 year-old kidney transplant
Post by: Romona on October 26, 2007, 01:15:04 PM
 :) Nice story.
Title: Re: 36 year-old kidney transplant
Post by: okarol on October 26, 2007, 01:24:03 PM
Story is also posted in News Articles http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=5519.0
Title: Re: 36 year-old kidney transplant
Post by: stauffenberg on October 26, 2007, 03:32:43 PM
He may well be one of the rare patients who develop immunological tolerance for the transplanted kidney, so the gradual undermining of the health of the kidney by subclinical rejection processes which usually unfold simply did not happen in his case, since his body recognized his new kidney as part of his own body.  This happens much more often with liver transplants, since the liver is so highly vascularized that there is extensive and intimate interaction between the native blood supply and the graft, but it can also sometimes occur in kidneys as well.
Title: Re: 36 year-old kidney transplant
Post by: Falkenbach on October 27, 2007, 05:28:18 AM
He may well be one of the rare patients who develop immunological tolerance for the transplanted kidney,

If only we could all be that lucky.

Oh, I decided up front that mine was going to last 30 years, I told the doctors that. No ifs, no buts, it's going to last 30 years.  :rofl;

Story is also posted in News Articles http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=5519.0

 :oops;
Title: Re: 36 year-old kidney transplant
Post by: Lori1851 on October 27, 2007, 09:40:15 AM
 :clap;
What a great post! God is good all the time !
Lori/Indiana