What is the longest a recipient has survived with a kidney transplant?

[okarol]

What is the longest a recipient has survived with a kidney transplant?

Info gathered on the internet - August 2008.

*Joan Waddell is one of the longest-surviving kidney transplant recipients [34 years] - got a kidney from her older brother in 1974 when she was 18 years old. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=071210_1_A1_spanc56110
*John Peper is HCMC’s longest living kidney transplant recipient - related donor - 1970 - lasting 38 years. http://www.hcmc.org/depts/transplant/patientstory.htm
*Denice Lombard of Washington, D.C., received her father's kidney on August 30, 1967 aged 13 and is still alive and healthy forty years later. http://kidneytransplant.researchtoday.net/about-kidneytransplant.htm
*Howard Mehl was 20 years old in in 1965, received a kidney from his brother. http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/feb06/trnshse.htm
*Dale Murdock is the fifth longest-living transplant recipient. Forty-four years ago, [age 14 in 1964] doctors transplanted a kidney into him. http://www.kpvi.com/global/story.asp?s=8749491
*Bill Thompson is the longest known surviving recipient of a kidney from an unrelated donor, lasting 42 years; transplanted in 1966 at age 15. http://www.childrensmemorial.org/depts/siragusa/feature.aspx?sID=2760&pID=1318
*Pam Collier on Monday, 24 March 2008 wrote: I have now had my Kidney transplant for 37 years as of 3 July 2008. http://www.kidney.org.au/Whoweare/KidneyBlog/tabid/143/EntryID/6/Default.aspx
*Michael Anderson on Saturday, 25 June 2005 wrote: Being one of the longest surviving renal transplants, (35 years post transplant), having suffered kidney failure at 22 years of age and awaited a transplant for five years. http://www.kidney.org.au/Whoweare/KidneyBlog/tabid/143/EntryID/6/Default.aspx

Kidneys: Longest Surviving - http://www.unos.org/data/default.asp?display=kidney&displayType=internationalData

[monrein]

    more, more, more 

[peleroja]

Certainly gives you something to strive for, doesn't it!

[paris]

   Gives us great hope.

[Zach]

Wonderful news.
 

[okarol]

From Lori Hartwell:

Charles has had a transplant for 37 years.
 
http://www.rsnhope.org/programs/kidneytalkshows/Charles_Rosenberg/index.php
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(January 23, 2007)
Read story and hear his interview on KidneyTalk too.

[okarol]

* 84 year old Lucille Nemeth celebrated an anniversary last year. She got a kidney from her sister Faye Spivey 34 years ago. (1973) http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070506/NEWS01/705060331/1006
* Penny Jo “P.J.” Burnett will be celebrating a birthday of sorts today, 35 years of health given to her by a kidney transplant from her sister, Mary “Scarecrow” Foust in 1973. http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/09/12/kidney-transplant-patient/
* At 54, Twanny Farrugia is one of Australia's longest-surviving transplant recipients - his donated kidney has kept him going a staggering 36 years. http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=5519.0
* John Brady, 56, is still on the go after a successful kidney op in 1974 (his second) making him one of UK's longest surviving transplant recipients at 33 years. http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=4644.0

[okarol]

Added another: Brothers celebrate 30th anniversary of life-saving gift - http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=11138

[kidney4traci]

wonderful!!!!!!!!

[pelagia]

love the numbers! 

[draven]

At my transplant clinic there is a record sheet on the wall.

There is a lady who has had her kidney since 1974. not bad at all

[circleNthedrain]

Very inspirational !  Thank you Okarol !

[pelagia]

Stephen says he's planning to go 40 years! 

[okarol]

For Don Gordon, when the Pearl Harbor date rolls around [2008], it will mark, for him, the 25th anniversary of the kidney transplant that preserved his life. http://www.thecolumbiastar.com/news/2008/0718/news/006.html

[okarol]

Harvey Brown marked the 30th anniversary since his life-changing kidney transplant with some of his children and grandchildren, as well as his two brothers, one of whom donated the life-saving kidney in 1979.
http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=11989.0

[Theresakay]

I'm still going strong. Received my transplant September 1978 ,after three years of home dialysis. I have had transplant longer then I had my own kidneys. Complete renal failure at 15, Transplant at 18 (three weeks before my wedding) Had my son eight years after transplant he is now 22 and has a one year old son of his own.

[Romona]

I'm still going strong. Received my transplant September 1978 ,after three years of home dialysis. I have had transplant longer then I had my own kidneys. Complete renal failure at 15, Transplant at 18 (three weeks before my wedding) Had my son eight years after transplant he is now 22 and has a one year old son of his own.

  Great news!

[Chris]

 

[G-Ma]

Thanks Okarol...this chart might be what some of us needed.  What concerns me is the only hospital in the midwest listed is Minneapolis and none in NC for longevity or is this not necessarily a complete listing?

[monrein]

One of the men at my clinic had his Mum's kidney for just over 31 years.