Organ Transplant
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A colleague of mine recently shared the news that he was listed for a liver transplant. He then mentioned that he was hoping [...]
The current system of prioritizing children with liver disease who are waiting for transplantation may not be optimal because the Pediatric End-stage Liver Disease score [...]
More than 113,000 people need a lifesaving organ transplant. Feb. 14 is National Donor Day. There were nearly 7,400 living donor transplants in 2019 — [...]
With a constant need for organ transplants, it's never been more important for people to sign up to be an organ donor. Dr. Charles Rosen, [...]
When surgeons at Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus completed their first solid organ transplant ― a liver transplant― on Feb. 26, 1998, little did they [...]
The transplant program at Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus recently has completed its 6000th solid organ transplant since its inception in 1998. Now one [...]
For the fourth year in a row, a record number or organ transplants were performed in 2016 in the U.S. Since 2012, the annual number of transplants [...]
April is National Donate Life Month. In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, Dr. Mark Stegall comments on efforts to lower rejection rates for organ [...]
The heart transplant team at Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus in Jacksonville, Fla., is celebrating the completion of its 500th heart transplant since its program began in [...]