
Recipient Kidney Transplant from a Living Donor
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Maggie L. Westfal, MD, MPH 
General Surgery Resident 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Nahel Elias, MD, FACS
Transplant Surgery Department 
Massachusetts General Hospital
The patient in this case is a 56-year-old female with a past medical history of type I diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, hyperlipidemia, and end stage renal disease secondary to diabetic and hypertensive nephropathies. In this video, Dr. Nahel Elias performs the recipient side of a living related kidney transplant from the patient’s sister.