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

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 that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.

"Sometimes it feels a status can be blank with no real emotional or expression" (Joe Peters 2015)