Louisa County resident Pat Gutekenst battled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and had a lung transplant at UVA in 2015. He and his wife, Stacey Gutekenst, contributed this post.
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Bill Potts, licensed clinical social worker, has worked with UVA transplant patients for almost 23 years. And yet, “23 years later, I still marvel at the amazing transformation patients go through after transplantation.”
We're kicking off Donate Life Month by talking to pediatric liver transplant surgeon George Mazariegos, MD. Mazariegos works at both UVA Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
UVA Transplant Program 50th Anniversary. This infographic gives a brief history of the numbers behind the successful program.
Islet cell transplants can help treat patients with diabetes or chronic pancreatitis. Learn more about the UVA islet cell transplant program in this video with Kenneth Brayman, MD.
Meet Alden Doyle, MD, who is new to Charlottesville and passionate about nephrology and transplants.
As we reflect on 50 years of UVA’s transplant program, we're revisiting some previous organ donation stories. We caught up with patients who had liver and lung transplants years ago.
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) used to be referred to as "the kingdom of the near dead," but treatments have vastly improved over the past 20 years. UVA cardiologist Sula Mazimba talks about current treatments.
Meet Heidi Flanagan, a lung transplant coordinator, who helps lung transplant patients coordinate their health care leading up to surgery.
Meet lung transplant surgeon Sasha Krupnick, MD, as he talks in this video about his exciting research into cancer and improving lung transplants.
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