08/05/2025
Answering the call: a donated kidney arrived on a commercial flight from New York, protected by LifePort Kidney Transporter.
"I was just staying alive, not really living.” Ruth McCorkle loved to travel, a dream that was put on hold when she discovered she had kidney disease. After a year and a half on dialysis, she got the call for a transplant after her new kidney arrived on LifePort Kidney Transporter. Ruth is now feeling much better post-transplant and has plans for future travels around the world. 🌎✈️
For many patients, transplant is the difference between staying alive and really living. LifePort Kidney Transporter can be instrumental in helping improve the lives of recipients like Ruth, while honoring the gift their donor selflessly gave.✨
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Since retiring, Ruth McCorkle has enjoyed traveling and spending quality time with her family and friends. But her plans were unexpectedly put on hold when she learned she had serious kidney issues.
Like the many flights she's taken, Ruth’s new kidney arrived on a commercial plane from New York safely preserved in a LifePort Kidney Transporter, a device designed to enhance an organ’s condition prior to transplant.
“Using commercial flights with advanced preservation technology opens doors to more donor organs that might otherwise go unused,” said Dr. David Leeser, professor and chief of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. “
To read more about Ruth's story, visit: https://go.ecuhealth.org/4lXd7zP