Clear Quote by Joseph Murray

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

— Joe Murray

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

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

If we had enough cadaver organs to go around we wouldn't do living donor liver transplants because one is we don't want to put…

— John Roberts

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

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to…

— Joe Murray

We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really is a…

— John Roberts

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

When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the…

— John Roberts

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The…

— John Roberts

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is…

— Robert Jarvik

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