Dramatic Quote by Joe Murray

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration…

— Joseph Murray

Surgeons from Johns Hopkins University Hospital successfully performed the first-ever 6-way kidney transplant last Saturday. Disturbingly, all 6 patients had only gone in for…

— Seth Meyers

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback…

— Jonah Lomu

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the…

— Evel Knievel

I was in the hospital for about two weeks because I had some complications due to the transition to kidney from dialysis and getting…

— Grizz Chapman

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…

— Bob Hope

Transplant is a life-changing 'experience. Organ donation transforms lives. It is torture for you, torment for you as an individual in need.

— Andy Cole

I had multiple surgeries covering everything from repairing a hematoma/hernia to an organ transplant. I was also placed on dialysis, accumulated excessive fluid in…

— Al B. Sure

I had a liver transplant, then I had a pacemaker put in, then I had a new knee put it, then I had a…

— Jim Nabors

So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut.…

— Denton Cooley

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

— Lech Walesa

I come from an era when if you are told that you need a triple heart bypass it sounds pretty terminal. But I think…

— Bob Mortimer