In a lawsuit filed Friday, Wendy Rappaport of Plymouth accuses the surgeon and the Allina hospital system of medical ...

No suspicious masses, stones, or hydronephrosis," according to the lawsuit. Rappaport did not consent to the removal of her left kidney, documents state. She stayed in the hospital until May 25 ...

At 3 a.m. the team started thawing the kidney, a process that took two hours. At 9 a.m., Dr. Alban Longchamp and Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, transplant surgeons at Mass General, opened the pig’s abdomen ...

Andrews is free from dialysis, Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday, and recovering so well from the Jan. 25 transplant that he left ... Mass General if he could get a pig kidney ...

Andrews is free from dialysis, Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday, and recovering so well from the Jan. 25 transplant that he left ... Mass General if he could get a pig kidney ...

“This is uncharted territory,” said Mass General’s Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, who led both Andrews’ surgery and the world’s first pig kidney transplant last year. But with lessons from animal ...

They left him fatigued and nauseous most of the ... who received an eGenesis kidney at Mass General. But Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, the lead surgeon involved in the operations at Mass General, said that ...

Dialysis left him frail, doctors said. He faced an especially long wait for a human donor kidney — an estimated 5 to 10 years — because of his blood type. In a video published by Mass General ...

Left renal cystic masses were identified in 32 patients; the remaining 35 patients had right renal cystic masses. The masses were located in the upper pole in 24 patients, the lower pole in 28 ...

The left ventricular assist device ... chair of transplantation and medical director for kidney transplantation at Mass General, who helped lead the team that performed the earlier pig kidney ...