More propaganda in support of one of my pet causes:
His birth certificate says he's 55, but Bill Thompson's kidney is 82 years old. Thompson received the kidney in a 1966 transplant at Children's Memorial Hospital that saved his life and made medical history.
The kidney, donated by a family friend, was one of the first kidney transplants from a living, unrelated donor.
And the kidney has continued working remarkably well for 40-plus years. Thompson holds the record as the longest surviving recipient of a kidney from an unrelated donor, according to UCLA's Immunogenetics Center.
"It's an amazing story," said Dr. Lowell King, who was one of Thompson's doctors.
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