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‘He Saved My Life’: Honoring a Pioneer Transplant Surgeon for 35 Years of Saving Lives

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Jenny Tice, 34, makes sure to live each day to its fullest. She is a Bay Area native, works in finance in San Francisco, lives an active lifestyle, and volunteers. However, these milestones wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Carlos Esquivel, MD, chief of the Division of Transplantation at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. He saved her life, twice.

“When I was 8 months old, I turned jaundiced and wasn’t gaining weight,” she says. “That’s when they found out that there was something wrong.” Read more from Stanford Medicine.

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30 Days of PH: A Lung Transplant Gave Me a New Lease on Life

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This is Justin Anthony’s story:

I can hardly recognize the man I used to be. The past few months have changed me physically, mentally, and emotionally. I tried to brave it out, hold on to hope, and pray for a miracle.

A few months ago, my doctors advised that oral pulmonary hypertension medication was no longer working. I had to move on to infusions of Remodulin (treprostinil) or be listed for transplant. Each option posed its own challenges. Read the full story from Pulmonary Hypertension News.

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How I Pivoted to a New Career After My Heart-lung Transplant

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Changing career paths has brought columnist Anna Jeter both grief and joy

Four weeks before I entered my freshman year of college, I was being evaluated for a heart-lung transplant due to pulmonary hypertension (PH). Little did I know that I would spend the next four years managing these very separate journeys alongside each other.

During this time, I think I did a good job of compartmentalizing events in my mind — perhaps too good a job. On one train of thought, I was preparing for a career in nursing and pursuing my degree to secure this future. In a completely different realm, I was beginning my transplant journey. Read the full article in Pulmonary Hypertension News here.

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The transplant patient who got two second chances

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George Surratt felt like the luckiest man in the world when he got a liver transplant. The wait list for an organ is so long that some patients run out of time.
 
And, so, nine years later, when the Maplewood, MN, engineer turned again to University of Minnesota doctors, this time for a kidney transplant, he was worried.
 
Could lightning strike twice and allow him to join his wife in watching their two kids grow into careers and maybe even families? Read the full story from University of Minnesota News.

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After 80 Days in the Hospital with Covid-19, Patient Returns to Thank Caregivers

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October 19, 2022 – Sue Ford

When Cory Yager was hospitalized with a severe case of Covid last year, he promised himself he would not give up. His care team had no intentions of giving up, either.

The 43-year-old father from Lewis County, north of Syracuse in the Adirondacks, spent nearly 80 days at Albany Medical Center, kept alive by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), prior to receiving a double lung transplant. Read the story from Albany MED Health System.

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Young patient celebrates new organ amid LLUH transplant milestones

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Loma Linda University Health’s transplant team last month broke its own record with a marathon of eight transplants completed in 72 hours. The marathon, coincidentally, also marked two significant milestones for the team: 1,000 living donor transplants and 4,000 total kidney transplants. Transplant surgeon Charles Bratton, MD, says the dedication and sense of purpose from the transplant team have allowed them to successfully transform thousands of lives, including the Coyt family. Read this story from Loma Linda University Health.

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How I Adjusted to Dietary Changes After Lung Transplant

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Many resources are available to help you learn post-transplant dietary restrictions

by Samuel Kirton

Those who follow my column know that one of my passions is cooking. It always has been. My wife, Susan, and I usually eat meals I prepare using little to no prepackaged ingredients. Dinner usually included wine for me.

But what I can eat and drink changed on July 10, 2021, the day I received my bilateral lung transplant.

It was not a surprise

When I was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in January 2017, we entered a world that was new to us. We wanted to better understand this disease, so we sought to learn as much as possible. My care team at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Fairfax County, Virginia, was an essential part of our pursuit of knowledge. Read more in Pulmonary Fibrosis News.

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From heart transplant to the NFL

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OK, so Sam Prince doesn’t play in the NFL, but he’s come closer to it than many of America’s greatest prospects ever will.

Born with a severe heart defect, Prince’s chances of living for five hours, let alone five years, were grim, but through a combination of great medical care, good luck, and the abiding love of his family, he survived, and at eight years old had a successful heart transplant. Read the full story in Rowan Today.

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Domino Donation: A Kidney to Save Two Lives Instead of One

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Oct. 18, 2022 – On a warm summer day in June, Amy Nadel sat in a waiting room at Johns Hopkins as one of her children was coming out of the operating room and another was preparing go in. And in a similar room in another part of the hospital, another family was sitting through the same thing. They were linked not by coincidence, but by one life-saving thing they were about to trade: kidneys. Read the full story in WedMD.

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