Organ Transplants

Understanding the Kidney Transplant Kidney Transplantation Kidney transplantation is a practice that puts a healthy kidney from another person into your body. This one new kidney takes over the work of your two failed kidneys. Kidney transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in a patient with end-stage renal disease . Once a person’s kidneys fail, three medication alternatives are on hand: hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation. If you suffer advanced and...Read Full Story

ABC & KGO-TV San Francisco Statement from Reece I Fawley, executive director, Health Plan Strategy and Transplantation at UCSF Medical Center and Benioff Children's Hospital UCSF does not reject potential transplant patients based on their immigration status. Our priority is to provide the highest quality, safest care for our patients. For kidney transplant patients, surgery is just the starting point of a lifetime of treatment that is complicated and expensive. All patients who move near the...Read Full Story

The Black Oklahoman Samuel Lee Kountz Jr. was a physician and pioneer in organ transplantation, particularly renal transplant research and surgery. An Arkansas success story, he overcame the limitations of his childhood as an African American in the Delta region of a racially segregated state to achieve national and world prominence in the medical field. Samuel Lee Kountz, the eldest son of a Baptist minister, was born in Lexa, Arkansas, in 1930. He first became interested in medicine at the...Read Full Story

Heart Transplant to Save Lives heart transplant Heart transplant is a surgical procedure is performed transplantation in patients. Heart transplant is surgery to remove a person’s diseased heart and replace it with a healthy heart from a deceased donor. Most heart transplants are performed on patients who have end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease . Heart transplants are done as a measure to save lives of end-stage heart failure. Because donor hearts are scarce...Read Full Story

Medpage today | Michael Smith Black patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) had a 59% lower rate of kidney transplant than whites in one southeastern center, researchers reported. An analysis of more than 2,200 patients treated at the Emory Transplant Center showed marked racial disparities in access to referral, transplant evaluation, waitlisting, and eventual transplant, according to Rachel Patzer, PhD, of Emory University in Atlanta, and colleagues. Clinical, demographic, and...Read Full Story