Many people after a kidney transplant will develop a little fluid collection around the kidney.

This is the kidney transplant I was never supposed to have.

If someone needs a kidney transplant or a heart transplant, maybe in the future, we could take a colony of these embryonic stem cells.

I don't know if you realize this, but 90 percent of the patients on the transplant list are actually waiting for a kidney.

These include kidney inflammation and lesions and increased kidney weight.

I didn't lose my kidney I could have lost my kidney,

For the kidney, as I talked to you about the first painting that you saw, the first slide I showed you, 90 percent of the patients on the transplant wait list are waiting for a kidney, 90 percent.

I have kidney trouble.

Kidney cancer is an uncommon disease.

I ordered a kidney X ray.

Now consider another doctor case this time you're a transplant surgeon and you have five patients each in desperate need of an organ transplant in order to survive on needs a heart one a lung, one a kidney, one a liver and the fifth a pancreas.

Since then I've had kidney trouble. Hospital!

One I thought had a kidney stone.

This is not a life saving transplant

We got him in the kidney. 're screwed

In this particular case, you're reading kidney function.

Shortly after I performed the first liver transplant,

In the front, you see, actually, Joe Murray getting the patient ready for the transplant, while in the back room you see Hartwell Harrison, the Chief of Urology at Harvard, actually harvesting the kidney.

I anonymously donated my right kidney to a stranger.

And you know also about lithotripsy breaking kidney stones.

I had kidney cancer growing out of my tongue.

The surgeon persuaded him to undergo an organ transplant.

The transplant community has actively campaigned in organ donation.

They said, You have two rare kidney diseases that are going to actually destroy your kidneys eventually, you have cancer like cells in your immune system that we need to start treatment right away, and you'll never be eligible for a kidney transplant, and you're not likely to live more than two or three years.

So, we stack these wafers together, using the kidney cells.

like this kidney tumor, so that you can exactly see where the boundary is between the kidney tumor and the kidney you want to leave behind, or the liver tumor and the liver you want to leave behind.

The surgeon persuaded me to undergo an organ transplant operation.

Let's imagine that we transplant this question back in time.

I still didn't want a transplant, but in a month,

But then when that bull stepped on my kidney, you know,

What we saw in that kidney was that big blob there.

And I saw, Aha! That's the kidney and the psoas muscle.

So, remember I told you about my brother's stem cell transplant.

If you have a heart transplant, you're still the same person.

If you have a memory transplant, are you the same person?

That started a kidney chain which enabled four people to receive kidneys.

You can actually see that kidney as it was printed earlier today.

I kept my kidney, so I don't think I'm a born loser.

Now when I look back, the transplant was actually the easiest part.

But not all patients on the transplant wait list are so fortunate.

If you have a belief transplant, would you be the same person?

So, a few years ago, I'm doing my transplant fellowship at Stanford.

I was sitting there kind of unenthusiastically talking with the head transplant surgeon, and I asked him if I needed a transplant, what I could do to prepare.

Thomas Starzl, who performed the world's first successful liver transplant in 1967, and Sir Roy Calne, who performed the first liver transplant in the U.K. in the following year.

And that's where we're failing, and that's where we need the face transplant.