#transplant

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#because #best #best way #continues #earth

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves. ↗

— Joe Murray

#back #couple #developing #dogs #had

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. ↗

— Joe Murray

#i #more #never #personally #seen

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

— Joe Murray

#immediately #improvement #kidney #patient #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. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#could #demonstration #dramatic #immediately #improvement

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#another #before #believe #biggest #biggest thing

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#getting #had #hip #i #liver

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it. ↗

— Barry Switzer

#head #heart #him #his #implant

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years. ↗

— Ian Smith

#had #humans #into #many #organs

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. ↗

— Leonard Bailey

#awesome responsibility #caretakers #chance #involved #more