Transplant
Welcome to the Mayo Clinic Transplant page! Mayo Clinic is the largest integrated transplant provider in the United States, performing over 2,000 solid organ and bone marrow transplants each year at our campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.
In these pages, there are materials for transplant recipients as well as living donors. No matter where you are in your transplant journey, our goal is to connect you to others and provide you with information and support.
Countdown to Living Donor Surgery: Key Steps
We love keeping up with the transplant discussion group to see what topics are top of mind for recipients. When possible, we use our transplant blog to provide information and fill gaps based on feedback from the group – which led to the development of this post. In this case, [...]
Meet the Expert Blog Post: Amanda Chaney, D. N. P.
Amanda Chaney, Doctor of Nursing Practice and liver transplant nurse practitioner at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Jacksonville, Florida, has an image imprinted in her brain each day as she serves patients needing liver transplant. The image comes from her experiences in the operating room: a brown liver transforming to pink [...]
Three Can’t Miss Posts if you’re Considering Living Organ Donation
We talk about living organ donation a lot on here. Actually, we talk about it more than a lot. We talk about it basically all the time because it’s one way we can rally together and make our nation’s organ shortage a little less dire. There are almost 115,000 Americans [...]
What to Expect During a Living Donor Evaluation
If you’re currently waiting for a liver or kidney transplant, you’re most likely familiar with living donor transplant. Maybe you’re even planning to have one if there’s someone in your life generous enough to be your donor. Living organ donation is an amazing act of generosity and courage. When a [...]
Mayo Clinic Transplant Innovations
Transplant medicine has made amazing progress in the last 50 years, with new research and surgical techniques saving thousands of lives worldwide. In 2017, a record number of more than 34,000 transplant surgeries were performed in the U.S. I have worked in the Transplant Center at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, [...]
