Members of the Mayo Clinic’s Inpatient Team walk you through what to expect during your transplant hospitalization and your immediate post-transplant clinic follow up. Watch the video from the Mayo Clinic.
More than 4,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a new heart, that’s according to the organization Donate Life America. Anxiety, fear and frustration are some of the emotions people go through while waiting for a lifesaving organ. Dr. Lisa LeMond, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, says perfusion technology, sometimes called “heart in a box,” is giving hope to transplant patients. Watch the video from the Mayo Clinic.
By Cathy Wurzer and Aleesa Kuznetsov
It is a full circle moment for Mayo Clinic. Next week will be the 60th anniversary of the clinics first kidney transplant from a living donor.
Now 60 years later, the clinic has performed it’s first robot-assisted kidney transplant.
On Oct. 4, a woman in her 60s received a kidney from her daughter. Dr. Timucin Taner is the division chair of Transplant Surgery at Mayo Clinic. Read the full article in MPR News.
Organ transplants represent one of many revolutionary advancements within the field of medicine over the past century. Since the first successful human kidney transplant in 1954, the number of treatment options for once life-threatening or incurable conditions, like kidney disease, has broadened significantly.
Organ transplant-related innovations like tissue typing, genomic sequencing, and antirejection drugs have helped spur progress in this area. But, in the future, clinicians may leverage more advanced approaches to improve patient outcomes. Read more in Health IT Analytics.