‘We’re not unicorns’: Husband donates kidney to wife at Loyola Medicine, showing possibilities for kidney transplants after age 70

At age 72, Carol McCabe went into kidney failure. There was a 7-year waitlist for a deceased donor kidney and her life expectancy on dialysis was 3 1/2 years. Her husband, Jon, donated a kidney through Loyola Medicine’s Living Kidney Donor Program. “I’m pretty sure my kidneys will outlast both of us,” he said.

Loyola University Medical Center

Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center Performs Milestone 300th Organ Transplant on Grateful 37-Year-Old Patient from Teaneck

Jose Vasquez almost didn’t answer his cell phone late one night in November but is now thankful that he did. “On the other line was a transplant coordinator from Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center telling me the team had a kidney for me and to get to the hospital right away!”

Hackensack Meridian Health Medical Center

El Registro Nacional declara el programa de trasplantes de Intermountain Health el mejor programa nacional de asignación exitosa de donación de riñones a los pacientes

Los nuevos datos publicados por el Registro Nacional de Riñones declaran los servicios de trasplantes de Intermountain Health como el programa de Kidney for Life más exitoso en los Estados Unidos por asignar correctamente los donantes de riñones a los pacientes que necesitan un trasplante de riñón para poder vivir. 

Intermountain Medical Center