Transplant Surgery Quotes

I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

Obviously I tell myself I'm more than happy for everything that's been given to me. But if I wake up one morning and my kidney decides 'I don't fancy it today', I'm back to square one.

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

Imagine being the parent of a six or seven-year-old who needs a transplant and there is no match. I understand now what that means.

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

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.

As a child, I had no interest in science whatsoever - then I started writing and recognized how relevant it was. My first book about science and medicine captured the world of organ transplantation in 1989 from the points of view of all of the participants - scientists, surgeons, social workers, organ recipients and even donor families.

You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it.

Who transplanted sustains

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

Ever since I got to know how easily skin donation can save the lives of serious burns patients, I have felt strongly about the issue.

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.

When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor.

A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.

When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.