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Team East Tennessee Scouting for Transplant Athletes
Transplant Waiting List Support Group (2007)
2004-2005 Bi-Annual Report Now Available
Pancreas Transplant Now Available (2004)
Team East Tennessee Scouting for Transplant Athletes
Team East Tennessee is scouting for athletes for the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games. This is an Olympic-style competition for recipients of life-saving transplants of all kinds, the games will be held July 11 – 16, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Click here for more information.
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Transplant Waiting List Support Group
When: Sept. 17 and Sept. 20, 9:30 a.m.
Where: Transplant Center, UT Medical Center
Contact: Debra Winston, 865.305.9263
This support group is titled “Your Mental Health,” and will be presented by Dr. Edwin Rogers.
Contact Debra Winston regarding your plans to attend either session by calling 865.305.9263.
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2004-2005 Bi-Annual Report Now Available
February 2006 -- Transplant Services is proud to provide its extended family the 2004-2005 bi-annual report, which will exemplify the accomplishments of the program over the past two years and since its beginning in 1985. In 2004-2005, we did a record number of transplants, and we accrued new faculty and staff. We maintained a very high success rate that is equivalent in morbidity and mortality to anyone in Tennessee, in both pediatrics and the adult population. Because we have had an increase in our staff, we hope to provide even better service to our patients by speeding up the evaluation and processing procedures.
Click here for the Center for Transplant Services 2005 – 2005 Bi-Annual Report.
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Pancreas Transplants Now Available
UT Medical Center, home to the only kidney transplant program in the region, is expanding its current program to include pancreas transplants. UT Medical Center received permission from the United Network for Organ Sharing to begin listing those who qualify for a pancreas transplant.
According to Department of Surgery professor and chairman Mitchell Goldman MD, the addition of pancreas transplants is a natural expansion of the program. “Many diabetic kidney transplant patients ultimately will also need a pancreas transplant,” he says. “The ability to offer both kidney and pancreas transplants here at UT Medical Center is an exciting new benefit for our patients. We also are very fortunate to have vascular and transplant surgeon Dr. Oscar Grandas and the advanced surgical skills he bring to the transplant team. This treatment option will improve the opportunities for a better life for diabetic patients in East Tennessee.”
UT Medical Center’s kidney transplant program was found in 1985. Since it began, more than 700 patients have received new kidneys. The transplant program at UT Medical center sees a 90 percent transplant success rate—one of the highest success rates in the country.
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