Updated: Saturday, 27 Jun 2009, 9:57 PM EDT
Published : Saturday, 27 Jun 2009, 9:57 PM EDT
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - This is extra video from the kidney transplant surgery.
After Dr. Tarik Kizilisik brought the kidney into the operating room from the donor surgery operating room, he transfers it to a clean bucket of ice.
Dr. Kizilisik used sutures to mark the vein and artery on the kidney so it's easier to see them when the kidney is in the recipient's body.
When the kidney is in the body, it's connected to blood vessels. Then Dr. Kizilisik used a doppler machine to make sure blood was beating to it. He then made sure the kidney was making urine by squeezing the ureter to make urine spray out.
A urine meter bag made sure the kidney and body were making urine as they should.