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When your primary care doctor tells you that your kidneys aren't functioning well and you are in kidney failure, what do you do? Do you…
During April’s Donate Life month celebration, the transplant and organ donor community puts focus on deceased donation and signing up to be an organ donor.…
National Donate Life Month is celebrated every year in April, giving us the opportunity to thank our donor families and living donors who have made…
Part of Mayo Clinic's commitment to its patients involves conducting medical research that can help people live longer, healthier lives. Clinical trials are research studies…
We would like to introduce Dr. Pennington, a lung transplant pulmonologist at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. We are so lucky she chose Mayo Clinic as…
Meet Dr. Diwan, a liver and kidney transplant surgeon at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Why did you choose transplant surgery as your area of expertise? …
According to a report published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in 2020, diabetes affects 34.2 million individuals in the US. Diabetes is a…
The need for kidney donors is great. In the U.S., close to 100,000 people are waiting for a kidney transplant. With this great need for…
According to the CDC, handwashing is one of the best ways to protect yourself and your family from becoming ill. We have outlined when and…
The smells of fall are our favorites – apples, fallen leaves, crisp air, and the last of our fresh garden produce. We hope you are…
Today's blog is written by a guest blogger and active member of our transplant discussion group, Athena (@athenalee). In June 2019, Athena was diagnosed with…
At many transplant centers in the U.S., people who have a high body mass index (BMI) don't qualify for kidney transplant. The traditional cutoff for…
Dr. Daniel Yip is a Cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. We sat down with Dr. Yip recently to…
Before we talk about living donation, we want to give credit to all our donors and donor families who have selflessly saved so many lives.…
Nationwide, roughly 12% of liver waitlist patients die each year and additional 15% of patients are removed from the list because they are too sick.…
There are roughly 107,000 individuals on the transplant waiting list according to the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN). Of those 107,000 individuals, roughly 90,000…
Mayo Clinic’s residency or fellowship program is the oldest and largest graduate medical education training program in the nation. Mayo Clinic typically has more than…
The first step of the transplant process for some patients is being evaluated and discussed by the team to be placed on the waiting list…
One of the most complex and important aspects of transplant evaluation and surgery is your financial situation and insurance coverage. Between commercial insurance, hospital billing,…
Don St. Dennis, a war veteran and retired businessman, had been suffering from kidney failure since 2016 and was searching for a donor. Many had…
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