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Organ Transplant

ORGAN TRANSPLANT

Northwestern Medicine Organ Transplant Center is No. 1 in Illinois and No. 8 nationally in the number of transplants performed, per the United Network for Organ Sharing, 2023.

The Comprehensive Transplant Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine was founded in 2009 to facilitate research and education across all areas of organ transplantation. The Comprehensive Transplant Center's research infrastructure is built around four pillars: immune tolerance, biomarker discovery, outcomes research and engineered tissues. These pillars support faculty in accelerating innovation to provide better patient care.


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Updates from Northwestern medicine ORgan transplant

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June 2024

ORGAN TRANSPLANT
AWAKE Kidney Transplantation: A Revolution in Renal Care
​Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed a pre-emptive living donor kidney transplant on a 28-year-old man with stage 5 chronic kidney disease. The patient remained awake during the surgery without general anesthesia and was discharged home less than 24 hours post-op. He reported feeling no pain during surgery. 
This was the first awake kidney transplant performed at Northwestern Medicine. Since then, the team has performed 14 more, and that number continues to climb.

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For a full list of CME opportunities, visit Continuing Medical Education at Feinberg School of Medicine.

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