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USC Keck Medicine / USC Institute of Urology

USC Keck Medicine / USC Institute of Urology

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The first human bladder transplant

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Running parallel bladder transplant clinical trial

On May 4, 2025, surgeons at UCLA performed the first successful human bladder transplant. Oscar Larrainzar, a 41-year-old father of four who'd spent seven years on dialysis after losing his bladder and both kidneys to cancer, received both organs in an eight-hour procedure. The kidney started producing urine immediately. Two days after going home, Larrainzar urinated on his own for the first time in seven years.

Updated Jan 7