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Living Donor Kidney and Liver Transplants
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| Hopkins is committed to living donor liver transplantation, Dr. Montgomery, M.D., Director of the Paired Transplantation Program. |
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When your life's journey includes organ transplantation, you need the highest standard of care. Johns Hopkins offers new hope to patients in need of transplants with a program dedicated to living donor kidney and liver transplantation. The program's priorities are to improve the success rate for both patients and donors, and to develop new techniques that will make living donor transplantation easier for both the patient and the donor.
The program is based on a history of achievement in transplantation at Johns Hopkins, such as the development of the laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy, a less invasive kidney transplant process that avoids large incisions that add time to the patient's internal healing. The donor requires less pain medication, heals faster, and is normally out of the hospital in two days.
Transplant surgeon Robert Montgomery, M.D., Director of the Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program, has continued this pioneering tradition by developing a revolutionary method to filter a patient's blood to enable kidney transplantation from any qualified donor (Living Donor Kidney Donation).
The Transplant Center also coordinates living donor liver transplants, which has advantages--such as less waiting time, lower costs, and higher survival rates--especially in pediatric living donor transplants. While Johns Hopkins is committed to living donor liver transplants, "We are not willing to take any chances to compromise the potential donor," explains Luis Arrazola, M.D., Director of the Living Donor Liver Transplant Program at Johns Hopkins.
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For more information about the Johns Hopkins Living Donor Transplant Program, please complete our online Inquiry Form. If you prefer to contact us by telephone, please consult our Directory.
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