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Vanderbilt also offers an organ transplantation center. Vanderbilt's first kidney transplant was in 1962; since then there have been more than 3,000 kidneys transplanted at Vanderbilt. VUMC has also had more than 2000 liver transplants and 600 heart and lung transplants.
Coordinates: 40.765487°N 73.954307°W. The Rogosin Institute is an independent, not-for-profit treatment and research center with facilities throughout New York City that treat patients with kidney disease, including dialysis and kidney transplantation; lipid disorders; and hypertension. It is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital ...
John Putnam Merrill (March 10, 1917 – April 14, 1984) was an American physician and medical researcher. He led the team which performed the world's first successful kidney transplant. [1] He generally credited as the "father of nephrology" [2] or "the founder of nephrology," which is the scientific study of the kidney and its diseases.
John Hartwell Harrison (February 16, 1909 – January 20, 1984) was an American urologic surgeon, professor, and author. He performed the first human organ removal for transplant to another. This was a pivotal undertaking as a member of the medical team that accomplished the world’s first successful kidney transplant.
A team of doctors traveled to Alaska for a donor heart and made the 10-hour journey back to Nashville, longer than ever before.
The implantable bioartificial kidney is a project that is being co-developed by a nephrologist named William H. Fissell IV, MD, from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center with Professor Shuvo Roy, a bioengineer from the University of California, San Francisco. The goal of this project is to create a bio-hybrid device that can remove waste ...
Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago have performed a kidney transplant on a patient who was awake the whole time. They say the technique used updated anesthesia methods which may ...
The former KU forward had been waiting for a heart donor for little over a week at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. ... “patients in need of an organ transplant have to navigate a ...