Alphabetical List of Conditions Treated / Kidney Transplant
Kidney Transplant
A Kidney transplant is surgery to place a healthy kidney into a person with kidney failure. Other names for a kidney transplant are: Renal transplant and Transplant - kidney. Kidney transplants are one of the most common transplant operations in the United States. A donated kidney is needed to perform a kidney transplant. The donated kidney may be from a living related donor (related to the recipient), such as a parent, sibling or child. Or, the kidney transplant donor may be a living unrelated donor (friend or spouse), or a deceased donor - a person who has recently died and who has no known chronic kidney disease.
Triple Kidney Transplant The lives of three Los Angeles-area kidney transplant patients were transformed by one of the West Coast's first three-way living-donor kidney transplant chains, made possible through the generosity of a non-directed, altruistic kidney donor from New York City. View Webcast >> |
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Kidney Swap UCLA UCLA Medical Center on Sept. 20 performed its first living donor kidney "swap," a procedure in which a loved one of a kidney transplant patient who is not compatible as a donor exchanges organs with another incompatible pair. View Webcast >>
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Kidney Transplantation at UCLA
UCLA has one of the country’s largest kidney transplantation programs, led by surgeon-scientists who lead the field. Patients with end stage renal disease can be spared the impact of chronic dialysis through kidney transplantation. UCLA is one of the first programs in the country to offer “donor exchanges”. This innovative program enables kidney transplant recipients who have willing but incompatible living donors to exchange kidneys with compatible donors.
Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Center
Transplant Information Website - UCLA
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