Organ donations, transplants grow in Tennessee and Mid-South
In 2023, 47 of the nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations, including Tennessee’s, broke records in the recovery of organs for transplant.
Topic: organ transplant
RSSThere are 6 article(s) tagged organ transplant:
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February 2024
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May 2023
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Methodist Transplant Institute is focusing on harder-to-place organs
Methodist Transplant Institute conducted a record 328 organ transplants in 2022, and the institute continues to grow by expanding its donor service area and using harder-to-place organs.
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Methodist Transplant Institute’s Jason Vanatta has found his calling
Dr. Jason Vanatta of Methodist Transplant Institute was 13 when he found his calling in 1984, when a child made headlines after she received the world’s first heart-liver transplant at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
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August 2022
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George Lopez to speak at Methodist luncheon
Past speakers have included former first lady Laura Bush, journalist Tom Brokaw, Queen Noor of Jordan, and Memphis native and actress Kathy Bates.
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Transplant of patient’s ‘ticking time bomb’ uncertain after surgeon’s exit
After a high-profile surgeon departed Methodist University Hospital’s Transplant Institute — and the live donor liver program is paused — a Memphis musician’s transplant is caught in the middle.
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Dr. James Eason no longer leading transplant institute at Methodist
The esteemed transplant surgeon who made headlines for performing Steve Jobs’ liver transplant is no longer leading the transplant institute named for him.
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