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1. latchkey · 1791054800 · focus · HN ↗

   I was confused at first. Mom donated a kidney to her son and she would have been 100, making the kidney effectively 100.

   1. agumonkey · 1791055372 · focus · HN ↗

      thanks for the clarification, still fascinating that the organ could live that long .. what if the son gives the kidney to a teen again ?

      1. phibz · 1791056035 · focus · HN ↗

         That won't happen. Even though it's still adequate for him it's very likely preforming under what a typical healthy kidney performs at. Long term slow rejection is nearly impossible to eliminate. No kidney transplant is forever and only in truly exceptional cases does it last the lifetime of the recipient.

         1. sokoloff · 1791126543 · focus · HN ↗

            > only in truly exceptional cases does it last the lifetime of the recipient.

            Well, sometimes they do, just not the way we’d hope they did…

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