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‘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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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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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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How Xenotransplantation Works
Dr. Adam Griesemer, a principal investigator in the Large Animal Xenotransplantation Laboratory at the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, discusses the promise of this latest advance in...
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CF patients share their inspiring lung transplant stories in honor of organ donation awareness month
A podcast from the Boomer Esiason Foundation offers a unique glimpse into the transplant journey
In this podcast from the Boomer Esiason Foundation, cystic fibrosis patients share their inspiring double lung...
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Dr. Dara Kass writes about her experience donating an organ to her son
Dr. Dara Kass writes about her experience with living donor liver transplantation in The New York Times.
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Dr. Jean Emond represents Columbia University Medical Center in Washington
Dr. Jean Emond represented Columbia University Medical Center at the White House's organ donor summit in June 2016.