What does it take to become one of the largest and most renowned multi-specialty transplant centers in the country? For the Baylor Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute, it’s been more than thirty years of pioneering transplants. It’s a program that started fast in 1984, with a liver transplant for a sick little girl from …
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It’s been more than 30 years since the first transplant was performed at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, launching a program that has saved thousands of lives. Back then, “Dr. Goran Klintmalm was 34-years-old and living in Sweden. Liver transplants were considered human experimentation, a last-ditch effort with an 80 percent fatality rate to save …
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In 2012, 117,283 people were on the organ donation waiting list in the United States. Of those, only 28,051 received an organ. “As you can see, there are a lot of people waiting, but not a lot of donors,” says Cinda Courtney, Transplant Coordinator at Scott & White Healthcare. Now’s the time to register your …
When Karen Goldthwaite received a new kidney in 2008 at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth—thanks to an anonymous organ donor, via the local organ bank—virtually everything about her life changed. Gone were her days of dragging herself out of bed, sick from renal failure. She had struggled through her …