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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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"…
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…
April is National Donate Life Month – a time for our transplant community to rally together and thank the donor families and living donors who…
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…
National Donate Life Month is celebrated every year in April, giving us the opportunity to thank our donor families and living donors who have stepped…
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