Talk:Kidney transplantation
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[edit] Rewrite
This needs a big rewrite, if nobody minds, I will do after I have finished with dialysis (and renal failure etc etc)Felix-felix 14:55, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Michael Woodruff
The article on Michael Woodruff, a kidney transplant pioneer is undergoing peer review. Please participate at Wikipedia:Peer review/Michael Woodruff/archive1.
[edit] Rewrite
I'm working on a rewrite.
[edit] Longest lived kidney transplant receiver
I see there are two nominees included for the category:
- Australian Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins, is the longest surviving receiver of a kidney transplant, living twenty-eight years on his donor organ.[citation needed]
- Denice Lombard of Washington, D.C., received her father's kidney on August 30, 1967 aged 13 and is still alive and healthy thirty-nine years later.
However, the record is more. Johanna Leanora Rempel (née Nightingale, b. Mar. 24, 1948) of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, received a kidney transplant from her identical twin sister Lana Blatz, on Dec. 28, 1960 at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. I last saw the category in Guinness 2004 (published Aug./Sept. 2003), so she had likely lived with the transplant for some 42 years by then. You can find a reference here (citing Guinness 2003). --Anshelm '77 19:35, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
