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Mayo Clinic Florida's Transplant Center: Much to Celebrate in 2023
Content from Tia Ford, Mayo Clinic Communications
There was much to celebrate as the Mayo Clinic in Florida Transplant Center rang in the new year. In 2023, the program celebrated its 25th anniversary since its first transplant in 1998. The team also celebrated the 60th anniversary of the enterprise Mayo Clinic Transplant Center alongside sites in Arizona and Minnesota, as part of the largest integrated center in the country. Additionally, Mayo Clinic achieved a record year in the number of transplants performed in 2023 -- a collective 1,986 organ transplants, 523 in Florida.
The achievements don't stop there. Other milestones Mayo Clinic in Florida reached in 2023
include:
• Completed the CMS survey with zero citations
• Highest total solid organ transplant volume in Mayo Clinic in Florida history
• Highest heart transplant volume in Mayo Clinic in Florida history (heart program ranked top 5)
• Highest lung transplant volume in Mayo Clinic in Florida history
• Highest living donor kidney transplant volume in Mayo Clinic in Florida history
• Highest liver transplant volume since 2006
• Surpassed 3000 kidney transplants in program history
• Surpassed 800 lung transplants in program history
• Achieved 600 heart transplants in program history
• Completed the first lung/liver transplant at Mayo Clinic in Florida since 2007
• Became the most experienced liver transplant program at using normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) in the country
The Florida transplant program began as a liver transplant program. Kidney transplant was added in 2000, with heart and lung transplant added in 2001. To date, the Florida center has performed more than 9,000 lifesaving transplants.
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HELPFUL LINKS
- Explore Mayo’s Transplant Center.
- Request an appointment.
- Connect with others in the transplant discussion group on Mayo Clinic Connect
- View our transplant toolkits on Mayo Clinic Connect
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Does anyone have Erdheim Chester Disease (ECD)?
I do!
Hi @samlupowitz, you may wish to connect with other members with ECD in this discussion group:
- Erdheim Chester Disease: Anyone have this?
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/erdheim-chester-disease/
I might need a transplant some day. I guess that could apply to any living person.
What is Mayo's opinion about artificial replacement organs? About using pig organs as replacements?
Are there other options that the public is not aware of, such as promising
research that is just beginning? I try to keep up with it, but not being a health care employee,
I obviously mostly just know what I read on the internet.