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Well, kidney problems rarely do come alone.
Especially because he was on long term dialysis before the transplant. Dialysis is not a treatment, all it is a short term stop gap measure.
He has had a human kidney transplant which failed five years. Plus type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Five years is a pretty long time to be on dialysis. All of this together would build up a lot of damage to the body especially the heart.
And the fact he was Given one means he did not qualify for a human organ, because there was no prognosis of him living long enough after transplant.