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This is my pan to kidney, liver, stomach, intestine and other such meats. It's also my song to meat cooked rare and my ode to meat presented so you can tell what animal it came from. Haggis, bloody steaks and fish cheeks--I salute...
RETURNED. SEAN ELLIOTT, 32, two-time NBA All-Star and the first pro athlete competing in a major sport with a kidney transplant; to the court, seven months after the operation; in San Antonio, Texas...
...memorable case, Weinstein predicted that a critically ill patient with both liver and kidney failure would get better within a month, Harrington remembered. To the amazement of Dr. Harrington and other doctors, this diagnosis proved to be correct...
Just because you can do something, however, doesn't mean you should. Donating a kidney means undergoing an operation that carries some risk. You could argue that you may be helping to save a life. But you certainly can't pretend that you're better off with one kidney instead...
...chance of dying, of reoperation due to bleeding, of infection, of vein clots in the legs or a hernia at the incision," says Dr. Arthur Matas, director of the renal-transplant program at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis. Even laparoscopy, a relatively new technique for kidney donation, is not risk-free. Doctors estimate that chances of dying from the procedure are about...