Organ Transplant
End-Stage Renal Failure Treatment Options: Dialysis or Kidney Transplant
Your kidneys are small but mighty organs tasked with the job of filtering 200 quarts of blood and about two quarts of waste and water every day — all in an effort to keep...
Organ Transplant
Life on Anti-Rejection Medications After Transplant
Our bodies are wired to defend themselves against foreign invaders. After a patient undergoes an organ transplant, the body responds to the new organ as if it were a foreign object. The immune system...
Organ Transplant
Choosing a Transplant Center: Survival Outcomes Data
Organ transplantation is one of the greatest advances in modern medicine. Just the idea of replacing an organ in the body with another one via transplant is an overwhelming concept. Therefore, it is no...
Liver
Emory Transplant Center Performs First HIV-Positive Liver Transplant
The Emory Transplant Center performed its first liver transplant from an HIV-positive deceased donor to an HIV-positive recipient. The procedure is not only the first successful HIV-positive to HIV-positive liver transplant in Georgia, but it...
Organ Transplant
Emory Transplant Center Awarded Grant to Improve Post-Transplant Regimens
The National Institute of Health awarded Emory Transplant Center researchers $12.6 million over five years to investigate improved post-transplant drug regimens for organ transplant recipients.
The Emory Transplant Center research team is led by Professor...
Kidney
Real Patients, Real Stories – Hear from an Emory Kidney Transplant Patient
Devin Gerald, a kidney transplant patient with the Emory Kidney Transplant Program, describes his experience growing up with kidney disease. Eventually, in his late teens, Devin’s kidneys started to fail, and he found himself...
Organ Transplant
Emory Transplant Center First in Nation to Earn Patient-Centered Specialty Practice Recognition
Emory Transplant Center has been recognized as the first transplant center in the nation to receive the Patient-Centered Specialty Practice Level 3 recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). A level 3...
Lung
Real Patients, Real Stories – Hear from an Emory Lung Transplant Patient
Diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a baby, Kendra Adderhold struggled to have a normal childhood. Her mother brought her to the Emory Cystic Fibrosis Center for treatment and, until adulthood, things were rather stable....
