The math here is a little confusing, but that's an exceptionally long lived organ. For reference I received a kidney transplant from my mother at 16. It lasted 19 years after being transplanted. My mother was 68 when I had to return to dialysis.
TFA mentioned this is very exceptional, it says both that it's the longest lasting transplant this hospital has ever done and that a living kidney donation typically lasts 15 to 20 years. Meaning your 19 years is typical.<p>The transplant itself was done 48 years ago and the mother was 52 at the time (thus the kidney was already 52 yrs old at the time of transplant)
The detail that got me: both on gurneys holding hands, and the mom crying tells him "don't worry about a thing, I've got a Genesis concert and I'm not missing it". They both made it to the concert. He still has the ticket stub
There is an observation that donated organs sync to a biological age of the recipient.<p><a href="https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/can-transplanted-heart-become-biologically-younger-harvard-study-suggest-it-can/91411326" rel="nofollow">https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/can-transplanted-heart-be...</a>
Yeah, this had me thinking. Does transplanting older organs into younger bodies force the body to rejuvenate the transplanted organ to the recipients age.<p>Edit: your article say so, neat.
So in theory you could keep an organ alive perpetually if you kept transplanting it every fifty or so years?
Ok so he needs to also donate it to a third person. Let's see how long we can keep it going!
Apparently the oldest transplanted liver in humans is 108 years old:
<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/transplanted-livers-can-survive-past-100-180980972/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/transplanted-liver...</a>
I donated a kidney to my Dad in 2000. It gave him an extra 23 years with us. He was on very low doses of his anti-rejection meds, partially due to us being a 4 out of 6 HLA type match, so the doctors were hopeful it would last him the rest of his life. It would have lasted far longer if ALS hadn't shown up.
I was confused at first. Mom donated a kidney to her son and she would have been 100, making the kidney effectively 100.
>Vetuskey only needs to visit Strong Hospital once a year for a check-up, and doctors believe the century-old kidney could last him the rest of his life.<p>Yeah well...
Stupid question but what's a Webster man?
Not a guy that lives in a dictionary
A man living in Webster.<p>(Or it can be an arachnid/human hybrid, but it's probably not <i>that</i>.)
A man who lives in Webster, in this case, Webster, New York. A suburb of Rochester.
These days
City + Person means someone living in such city. They don’t say “from + place” because that implies origin which they try to avoid these days.
Pretty stupid to assume familiarity with random suburbs though, unless writing in a local newspaper.
I interpret Webster Man to imply origin even more strongly than "from Webster". The noun phrasing implies long term stability, objects don't change from one noun to another noun when they change locations.
i wonder if there are any kidneys or other organs on their 3rd person...<p>like the donee dies, and the original kidney goes on to someone else
I read somewhere that transplanted organs adopt the age of the recipient, contradicting the hopes of people who want to live forever by replacing their organs regularly.<p>Didn’t Putin allude to that recently ?<p>In any case that’d be good news, it would augment the organ availability by allowing older donors!
so cool. looking forward to organ replacement grown from stem cells.
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