#kidney

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

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I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves. ↗

— Joe Murray

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Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. ↗

— Joe Murray

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Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean. ↗

— Joseph Murray

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Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. ↗

— Joseph Murray

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