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Patient Care
‘Donation after cardiac death’: New heart transplant method being tested for the first time in the U.S.
More than 250,000 people in the U.S. are currently at the end stages of heart failure, up to 15% of whom are in desperate need of a transplant. A new method of “reanimating” donor hearts from...
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Patient Care
Looking Back: 30 Years of Living Donor Liver Transplantation
At the time, no one in the United States had undergone a living donor liver transplant. Several successful surgeries occurred in other countries, but the United States was just entering into the...
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Patient Care
Seeing the Liver for the Trees
Dr. Jean Emond's Perspective
“When I drive around or walk in the woods I’ve always got my eyes peeled for trees that have the shape of a liver,” says Jean Emond, MD, chief of transplantation at Columbia.
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Overhaul in the Treatment of Kidney Disease is Long Overdue, Kidney Transplant Surgeon Explains the Importance
"Three main issues plague the way we treat kidney disease in the United States: the business of dialysis, access to kidney transplants, and monetary barriers that stand in the way of donating a...
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Granger Smith’s 3-year-old son saves 2 lives with organ donation
"Country singer Granger Smith’s wife revealed on Saturday that their son’s donated organs helped save the lives of two people after the boy died in a “tragic accident” last month."
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Smithtown woman's kidney gift to teen unites families
Lisa Calla of Smithtown and Shannon Mulroy of West Islip became friends when their sons were teammates on the St. Anthony's High School baseball team. When Shannon's daughter Julia needed a new...
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Conversation with Dr. Kasi McCune
Watch and interesting conversation with Dr. Kasi McCune.
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Transplant Physicians and Surgeons elected to major leadership positions in national transplantation organizations.
Three of our wonderful transplant physicians and surgeons, Lloyd Ratner, Maryjane Farr and Betsy Verna, have been elected to major leadership positions in national transplantation organizations....
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Genomic Collision May Explain Why Many Kidney Transplants Fail
A genomic collision could explain why many kidney transplants fail.
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New Approach Shows Regeneration of Severely Damaged Lungs
Columbia Engineering and Vanderbilt researchers are first to demonstrate in a clinically relevant model that severely damaged lungs can be regenerated to meet transplantation criteria; could lead...
