Our expanded partnership with Riverside Health improves access to liver transplants in eastern Virginia. Our blood cancer and stem cell transplant experts are now seeing patients in Northern Virginia. Plus, we're the first in the U.S. to offer a newly FDA-approved vascular conduit for critical vessel repair.
Category: Transplant
Dr. Frank DiPaola is a children's liver specialist who primarily focuses on transplant. He shares how he connects with providers state-wide.
Up to 20% of infants and children waiting for a heart transplant die before ever receiving one. This sobering statistic has historically been attributed to a paucity of available donor hearts. But recent work by Michael McCulloch, MD, a pediatric transplant cardiologist at UVA Health Children’s, and his team of…
In lieu of more donors, UVA Children's transplant specialists are bridging the organ gap by innovating new ways to broaden the pool. These complex procedures are improving organ allocation for both kids and adults throughout the region.
Learn more about their areas of clinical expertise and their approach to patient care.
COVID-19 took a significant toll on transplant programs nationwide. This week, UVA aims to raise awareness of organ donation and celebrate successful transplants with Donor Dash, a virtual race to support the UVA Transplant Program.
The goal of transplant is to replace the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas that are destroyed by the immune system. This can now be done two ways: a solid organ transplant or islet cell transplant.
TransMedics Organ Care System, a portable warm blood perfusion and monitoring system, gained FDA approval last spring for standard bilateral lung transplantation.
The evolution of this procedure is a great example of how scientists and physicians can, through collaboration, discovery and determination, transform a miraculous concept into routine practice.
A partnership between UVA Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has resulted in four pediatric liver transplants since April and four to six more are expected to occur before the end of the year.