A Zion man is the second to recover from an awake kidney transplant at Northwestern Medicine.
Harry Stackhouse was diagnosed with COVID-19 in December 2019, which is when doctors noticed one of his kidneys was failing, and the other was only working at 2%, according to Northwestern.
"I wanted my dad to get a kidney transplant so he could go back to living the way he was before his renal failure and go back to work," said 45-year-old Trewaunda Stackhouse. "I was skeptical at first, but Trewaunda assured me it would be okay. She said, 'Dad, this is the same type of anesthesia that's used when women have C-sections; you can do this,'" the patient said.Northwestern Medicine performs its 1st awake kidney transplant procedure in under 2 hours
Stackhouse fit the criteria for what Northwestern Medicine is hoping to do as it establishes the Accelerated Surgery Without General Anesthesia in Kidney Transplantation program, also known as the AWAKE Kidney Program.
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