Transplant surgeon Ray Fearing gives his failing transplanted kidney to another patient . For the first time a failing transplanted kidney has thrived in a new recipient , a doctor . It allows the new recipient to resume his work as a cardiovascular surgeon . He had been struggling for years with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis , a disease that causes scar tissue to develop in the part of the kidney that filters harmful substances . ` ` It 's amazing stuff , it really is , '' says president of the National Kidney Foundation .
Transplant surgeon Ray Fearing gives his failing transplanted kidney to another patient . For the first time a failing transplanted kidney has thrived in a new recipient , a doctor . It allows the new recipient to resume his work as a cardiovascular surgeon . ` ` It 's amazing stuff , it really is , '' says president of the National Kidney Foundation .