http://www.umm.edu/transplant/ The latest news about the University of Maryland's Division of Transplantation. mirabyte Feed Writer Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:32:25 -0600 Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:33:04 -0600 http://www.umm.edu/transplant/kidney/kristin_mcloughlin.htm Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:50:43 -0600 The University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore is the first hospital in Maryland and only the third in the United States to perform a single-port, natural orifice kidney removal surgery through the navel for a living kidney donor. During the procedure, surgeons use a single opening in the navel (belly button) as they manipulate a camera and two laparoscopic instruments to separate the kidney from its attachments in the abdomen. The kidney is then removed through that same opening. Only a tiny bandage is required to close the navel, and there are no scars. http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/sils.htm Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:49:13 -0600 Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center have adapted a small, portable artificial lung ,using a newly approved catheter, so that end-stage emphysema patient, Ward Forsyth, can walk, talk, eat and even exercise on a treadmill while he waits for a lung transplant.

]]> http://www.umm.edu/transplant/ecmo.htm Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:57:22 -0600 When Carmen Munoz began her search for a kidney transplant center, finding a place with expertise in polycystic kidney disease (PKD) played a major role in her decision to choose the University of Maryland Medical Center. http://www.umm.edu/transplant/carmen_munoz.htm Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:23:32 -0600
This summer, Emily attended the U.S. Transplant Games in Pittsburgh where she competed as an athlete and sang at the closing ceremony.
]]> http://www.umm.edu/transplant/emily_biondi.htm Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:32:25 -0600 In July 2007, Rick Bounds underwent a kidney and liver transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center. It's hard to believe that less than a year later, he would compete in a triathlon, complete with swimming, running and biking. But that's what the 53-year-old Essex man did in May, when he participated in the Pocomoke City Triathlon. Bounds used the triathlon as a fundraising opportunity for the University of Maryland Medical Center's Transplant Program. http://www.umm.edu/transplant/kidney_rec_don.htm Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:29:37 -0600 This Webcast shows a kidney being removed from a donor using a minimally invasive procedure called laparoscopic nephrectomy, which the UM Medical Center has done more of than any other hospital in the country. The kidney is then prepared for transplant and placed into the recipient. http://www.umm.edu/webcasts/living_kidney_donor.htm Sat, 3 May 2008 04:06:28 -0600 Get answers to your important transplant-related questions with the help of our experts. Our free Ask the Expert feature connects you with physicians and nurses at the University of Maryland Transplant Center, who can answer questions on a variety of transplant-related topics. http://www.umm.edu/transplant/askexpert.htm Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:11:23 -0600 http://www.umm.edu/transplant/jejuan_brown.htm Fri, 1 Feb 2008 03:59:56 -0600 Transplant surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore are the first in Maryland to perform a combined heart and liver transplant. The two organs were transplanted in a 33-year-old man from Oxon Hill, Md., during a ten-and-a-half hour procedure on October 15, 2007. http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/heart_liver_transplants.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:09:47 -0600
The living liver donor transplant took place at the University of Maryland in March of 2006.
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]]> http://www.umm.edu/transplant/living_liver_donor.htm Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:02:20 -0600 The Transplant Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center is leading the way in terms of providing a less invasive surgery for kidney donors. Surgeons at the UM Medical Center have performed more laparoscopic kidney removals -- 1,054 as of September 2006 -- than any other U.S. transplant center. Find out more about living kidney donation and our state-of-the-art program, http://www.umm.edu/transplant/living_kidney_donor.html Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:36:40 -0600 Norman Biondi of Ellicott City donated one of his kidneys to his daughter, Emily, who was diagnosed with kidney failure at the age of 19. The successful transplant surgery took place in December of 2003 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. To honor and thank her father, Emily submitted an essay expressing what her father's kidney donation meant to her. Emily's essay was one of five selected from among more than 150 contest entries nationwide in the Ride of a Lifetime essay contest. The prize, to participate in the 2007 Rose Parade, was awarded to Norman. http://www.umm.edu/transplant/emily_norman.htm Sat, 6 Jan 2007 02:37:05 -0600 The University of Maryland Medical Center has performed 1,000 minimally-invasive kidney removals from people who have donated a kidney to a family member or friend, the most of any hospital in the United States. http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/1000_lkr.html Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:56:25 -0600 After struggling with the effects of polycystic kidney disease (PKD) for over 10 years, Jamie Cadiz was in end-stage renal failure and needed a kidney transplant but she also faced an additional challenge -- finding a transplant center that would take her case. She finally found that place at the University of Maryland Medical Center. http://www.umm.edu/transplant/cadiz_clarke.htm Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:46:32 -0600 UM Medical Center surgeon Andrew Kramer, M.D., discusses this innovative treatment to treat polycystic kidney disease (PKD). http://www.umm.edu/transplant/bilnephtrans.htm Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:44:46 -0600