Lurie Children's Hospital performs record-breaking 140 transplants in last year
That number includes 40 kidney transplants, 30 heart transplants, 15 liver transplants, and 55 stem cell transplants.
Lurie Children’s Hospital celebrates transplant milestone
Doctors between last September and this August performed 85 kidney, heart and liver transplants. Surgeons also accomplished ...
Transplant donor wakes up on operating table as doctors prepare to remove his heart in nightmare scenario: witnesses
A nightmare scenario played out at a Kentucky hospital as a transplant donor woke up on the operating table just as doctors ...
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A race-based test for kidney function is finally changing. What about the rest of medicine?
Because of race-based estimates, thousands of Black patients were placed further down kidney transplant waitlists.
Kidney transplants are safe between people with HIV, new US study shows
People with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus, according to a large study that comes ...
‘He needs help': This retired Mass. state trooper is in dire need of a kidney
A retired Massachusetts state trooper has spent his life helping others — but now, he’s in need of help as he searches an organ donor following a kidney failure diagnosis. Tom McAnulty lives in ...
He found a purpose working on the Hill. Now he needs a kidney
Adam Jardine doesn’t want this to be a sob story. “There are obviously sad aspects to it, but I try to stay positive ...
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The life-changing impact Carilion’s Kidney transplant center could have for local patients
The CDC estimates 1 in 7 adults have chronic kidney disease. In Virginia, there are currently over 2,300 people on the ...