Transplant
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October 15, 2020
Living liver donor program performs first transplant
The Vanderbilt Transplant Center's newly launched living liver donor program allows relatives to donate part of their liver to their loved one, something only possible at select centers in the country. -
October 8, 2020
COVID patient’s heart-lung transplant is world’s first
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has performed the world’s first dual heart-lung transplant of a COVID-19 patient. -
October 1, 2020
Transplant program reaches milestone 10,000th procedure
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has completed its 10,000th organ transplant, a monumental achievement representing nearly 60 years of life-saving work. -
September 8, 2020
The police officer needed a kidney transplant. The donor turned out to be very familiar to him — he had arrested her numerous times.
He had been a cop for four decades. She had been featured on "Alabama's Most Wanted." -
August 26, 2020
Kidney transplant patient returns home to joyous reverse parade
Lee Foster's friends and neighbors smiled, waved, honked and enjoyed cake pops -
August 26, 2020
Four heart transplants performed in whirlwind 48 hours
The Vanderbilt Transplant Center’s cardiac surgeons transplanted four hearts in one 48-hour stretch in August, thanks to VUMC’s perfusion and organ recovery teams traveling more than 4,000 miles across the country to obtain the donor organs. -
August 12, 2020
Congenital heart patient receives unexpected transplant
For years, doctors told Piper Davis it was impossible to have a heart transplant. She was born with just one ventricle, or pumping chamber, instead of two. A generation ago, such patients didn’t survive into adulthood.