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- I was confused at first. Mom donated a kidney to her son and she would have been 100, making the kidney effectively 100.by latchkey
- 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.by JohnTHaller
- Ok so he needs to also donate it to a third person. Let's see how long we can keep it going!by cfiggers
- Apparently the oldest transplanted liver in humans is 108 years old: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/transplanted-liver...by mrb
- >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.
Yeah well...
by Grimeton - There is an observation that donated organs sync to a biological age of the recipient.
https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/can-transplanted-heart-be...
by d_silin - 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.by phibz
- 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 stubby Wittie