Items Tagged ‘kidney transplant’
August 10, 2017
TOGETHER TRIAL–An individualized strategy for stopping organ rejection
Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine is collaborating with a molecular diagnostics company to monitor patients after an organ transplant and improve the efficacy of immunosuppressant drugs by tailoring treatment to an individual’s genome. The effectiveness of immunosuppressant drugs is governed by a number of factors, but a major contributor is an individual’s genome. The […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, clinical trials, Individualizing Medicine Conference, kidney transplant
May 9, 2017
Increasing the Odds Mayo Clinic performs more transplants than any other organization in the country. That experience allows Mayo Clinic scientist-physicians to study stem cells and personalize drugs to fight organ rejection and increase the number of viable lungs. Immune-Building Stem Cell Research In the 1970s, when Cesar A. Keller, M.D., started his career in […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, Center for Regenerative Medicine, kidney transplant, regenerative medicine, stem cells
November 25, 2013
Mayo Clinic's Fifty Years of Kidney Transplants – Part IV
Pioneers of Kidney Transplantation at Mayo Clinic The first transplant of a kidney took place in Saint Marys Hospital on Nov. 25, 1963. Surgeons George A. Hallenbeck, M.D., and James DeWeerd, M.D., headed a medical team that performed the first transplant, placing a kidney in a female patient. The patient’s half-sister was the donor. Mayo’s operation […]
November 25, 2013
Mayo Clinic – Fifty Years of Kidney Transplants – Part III
The Numbers, for the Record Candidates on waiting list for kidneys for transplant (national) – Approximately 97,000 Kidney Transplants at Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic – Number of Kidney Transplants (as of June 30, 2013) Rochester ( since 1963) – 4,822 Arizona (since 1999) – 1,974 Florida (since 2000) – 1,186 Kidney transplant patients at Mayo Clinic are cared for after […]
November 25, 2013
Mayo Clinic and 50 Years of Kidney Transplants – Part II
[Editor’s note: We recently looked at benchmarks in kidney transplant history. Today more on the kidney and why it’s so important.] The Kidney’s Critical Role The kidney’s well-being is essential for the rest of the body. It acts as the main filtering system for wastes and the major factor in excreting them from the body. […]
November 25, 2013
Fifty Years of Kidney Transplants at Mayo Clinic
Fifty years ago, the prognosis for a patient with kidney failure was threatening to grim. Transplants of kidneys from one person to another were not mainstream medicine. In fact, a transplant was so extraordinary that TIME magazine described the treatment as “the most daring of all.” Kidney transplants still are serious operations today. But, since […]