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After completing its 100th KPD transplant in a 12-month period, the Penn Transplant Institute now holds the worldwide record for the most KPD transplants in a year.
Hospital of the University of PennsylvaniaIntermountain Health’s Transplant Services was named as the top Kidney for Life program in the country for successfully matching living kidney donors to patients who need kidneys. It had the highest percentage of kidney transplants that were well matched over the last year when compared to the other 101 hospitals in the program.
Intermountain Medical CenterJose Vasquez almost didn’t answer his cell phone late one night in November but is now thankful that he did. “On the other line was a transplant coordinator from Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center telling me the team had a kidney for me and to get to the hospital right away!”
Hackensack University Medical CenterA kidney transplant at Hartford Hospital recently set a world record, according to the National Kidney Registry. The zero-eplet mismatch kidney came from a donor at Mayo Clinic Rochester. It became the registry’s 8,000th living kidney donor transplant, breaking a world record for the most transplants from a single kidney-paired donation registry.
Hartford HospitalMayo Clinic’s Bold. Forward. strategy to transform healthcare globally and reimagine patient and staff experience in Rochester continues to advance. Mayo Clinic updated its five-year plan to reflect potential plans and building projects being proposed in the next several years.
Mayo Clinic RochesterAt age 72, Carol McCabe went into kidney failure. There was a 7-year waitlist for a deceased donor kidney and her life expectancy on dialysis was 3 1/2 years. Her husband, Jon, donated a kidney through Loyola Medicine’s Living Kidney Donor Program. “I’m pretty sure my kidneys will outlast both of us,” he said.
Loyola University Medical CenterDr. Naim Issa, a Mayo Clinic transplant nephrologist, says, until recently, patients with Type 2 diabetes have been ruled out as potential living kidney donors. Now, following strict criteria, some patients may be eligible to help close the gap on this ever-growing need for living kidney donors.
Mayo Clinic in FloridaMayo Clinic ArizonaMayo Clinic RochesterIn February 2022, I donated my left kidney to a stranger through the NKR at the Dell Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas. After listening to a podcast about organ shortage, life on dialysis, and kidney paired donation, I started looking into living donation in 2021.
Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of TexasThe Black community faces a higher risk of chronic kidney disease. This can be due to genetics, higher rates of hypertension and diabetes, and socioeconomic issues such as access to healthcare and structural racism. Dr. Ivan Porter II, a Mayo Clinic nephrologist, discusses ways to help reduce the risk of chronic kidney disease.
Mayo Clinic in FloridaMayo Clinic ArizonaMayo Clinic RochesterLisa Brown, 53, of Jacksonville, suffered from severe pelvis and back pain for years. She later learned that her bladder wasn’t working due to follicular cystitis, a rare and non-specific inflammatory disease of the bladder, and inflammatory pseudotumor of the bladder. In 2017, her bladder was removed using robotic-assisted surgery and replaced with a “neobladder”…
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