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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="352"] Dr. Heilman climbs a glacier in Alaska[/caption] As a college student, Raymond Heilman, M.D., nephrologist at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Arizona,…
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Meet Richard. Richard’s path to transplantation began when he started experiencing problems related to hepatitis C. When Richard’s liver became too damaged to function, he…
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Your journey to organ transplantation will include many important decisions, including where to receive your transplant care. The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) is…
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Receiving an organ transplant is a major, life-changing event. Often we think of the physical changes patients experience after transplant. Patients slowly go from being…
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A key step in your journey to transplantation is getting listed for transplant. If you’re wondering how to begin, we’re here to help! When a…
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Nadeen Khoury, M.D. was a special contributor to this blog post. Dr. Khoury is a renal transplant fellow at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Her interests include…
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Heart palpitations sent Terrance to his local hospital in Manchester, New Hampshire. But if he was being honest, he hadn’t felt well for the past…
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Getting a second opinion when you’ve been told you need a transplant takes time, travel and money, so why do it? A new Mayo Clinic…
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If you meet a transplant social worker wearing orange and blue, it’s probably Danielle Peabody Reuss, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W., of Mayo Clinic’s campus in Rochester. She…
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Today almost 118,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant and nearly 100,000 of those are waiting for a kidney. Increasing the number of possible…
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In March, transplant experts David Douglas, M.D., chair of the Transplant Center at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Phoenix, Ariz., and Beverly Hansen, M.S.W., L.M.S.W., Social…
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Living donation is a wonderful act of generosity and courage, and the preferred alternative giving hope to people waiting for a deceased kidney or liver…
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Meet Ed, one of Mayo Clinic’s oldest and longest-surviving kidney transplant patients. Ed’s life has been shaped by the state of his kidney. He was…
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Your evaluation is complete and you’ve been placed on the list for an organ transplant. Now you wait. It may take several months of waiting…
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If you’re interested in becoming a living liver donor, getting educated on what to expect, including the qualifications of being a living donor, is an…
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Maikki was 32 years old when she received her life-saving liver transplant due to liver damage caused by primary sclerosing cholangitis and cholangiocarcinoma, a cancer…
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The liver transplant team at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Jacksonville has found that more than half of patients receiving a new liver can be "fast-tracked"…
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Rahima A. Bhanji, M.D. was a special contributor to this blog post. Dr. Bhanji is a gastroenterology research fellow at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Her…
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April is National Donate Life Month – a time for our transplant community to rally together and thank the donor families and living donors who…
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National Donate Life Month provides the opportunity to promote organ donation to those who haven’t found it in their hearts to sign up yet. It's…