Tag Archives: University of Rochester Medical Center

April is Donate Life Month

This month we are celebrating organ donors, donor families, transplant recipients, and the success of transplant medicine with Donate Life Month. Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network has produced two great new videos: The URMC Center for Transplantation River Run takes … Continue reading

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Paired Donor Exchange and Non Directed Donation for Kidney Transplantation

Paired donor exchange involves two kidney recipients exchanging their intended donors with one another. If a donor has an incompatible blood type or has antigens to the recipient, they can instead donate to another unknown, but compatible, recipient in exchange … Continue reading

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Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)

HCC, or HepatoCellular Carcinoma, is a type of cancer that begins in the liver. People with terminal scarring of their livers (cirrhosis), regardless of the original cause, are at higher risk of developing HCC. People infected with Hepatitis B or … Continue reading

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Two Organ Donation Videos

Here is a beautiful video on organ donation awareness from South Africa. Concise, poignant, and powerful. Be an organ donor. Don’t take someone else with you. http://vimeo.com/31359689 Here is a longer video produced by Malcolm Spaull at Rochester Institute of … Continue reading

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Guest Blog: A Kidney Donor’s Perspective

The following was written by one of my patients who graciously agreed to donate one of her kidneys to her brother in law for transplant. Her perspective emphasizes the many gifts given to many people through living donor kidney transplantation. … Continue reading

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Participate in the Cycle of Life

The following is a speech I gave at the Greentopia Festival, Rochester, New York’s first green festival. But first, see this video testimonial from a woman volunteered to tell the story of her sister who received a liver transplant. She … Continue reading

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bLifeNY: The Challenges of Raising Organ Donation Awareness

The field of organ transplantation has become a victim of its own success. With vastly improved antirejection medications, surgical techniques, and medicines to prevent transplant related infections, the chances of long term success for all solid organ transplants are uniformly … Continue reading

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Protein Okay for Cirrhotics

I was just seeing a patient in liver transplant clinic today with end stage liver disease secondary to fatty liver disease leading to Non Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis. She was miffed with her primary care physician because he had … Continue reading

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Fatty Liver Disease

The “Metabolic Syndrome”, defined by the International Diabetes Federation as the presence of central obesity (or increased waist circumference) plus any two of the four following conditions: insulin resistance, high blood levels of triglycerides (fat), low levels of HDL (High … Continue reading

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A Conversation About Kidney Transplantation

Here is a typical conversation that I have with a potential kidney transplant recipient. Dr. Barry: Good morning. Your Nephrologist has referred you to our center for evaluation of your kidney transplant surgical candidacy. I understand that the cause of … Continue reading

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