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He’s 65 with a 100-year-old kidney, thanks to his mother’s lifesaving gift
Officials said the average living-donor kidney transplant lasts 15 to 20 years, far less than the 48 years Vetuskey has lived with his donor kidney.
- Miklos Vetuskey remains the longest-surviving kidney transplant recipient in the University of Rochester Medicine program, 48 years after receiving a transplant at age 16.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Vetuskey donated her kidney on March 2, 1978, after a virus severely damaged her son's organ when he was a teenager.
- At 65, Vetuskey lives with a 100-year-old kidney, far exceeding the average 15-to-20 year survival rate; he said he "felt great afterwards" following the 1978 surgery.
- Dr. Miklos Z. Molnar, director of Transplant Medical Services for the URochester Medicine Transplant Institute, called Vetuskey's story an inspiration for patients awaiting new organs.
- Reflecting on his mother, who would have turned 100 this year, Vetuskey said in an interview with WHEC, "She's right by my side, all the time.
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Ray Vetuskey was 16 years old when he was diagnosed with kidney failure in 1978. When dialysis did not help, the family was told that the only way out was a transplant, and his mother Betty Vetuskey, who was 52 at the time, agreed to help.
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