Department of Surgery
Division of Transplantation Surgery
The Division of Transplantation Surgery evaluates potential transplant
recipients and provides specialized care in patients with kidney, pancreas,
heart, lung and liver disease.
This includes all types of vascular surgery and treatment of cancer of the
liver, pancreas and bile ducts as well as complex problems of the kidney, pancreas,
bile ducts and gastrointestinal tract. Program members work closely with other
specialties for comprehensive patient management.
Patient Conditions
- Kidney failure
- Early diabetic kidney disease
- Insulin dependent diabetes
- Secondary diabetic complications
- Cirrhosis; end-stage liver disease
- Cardiomyopathy
- Unreconstructable coronary artery disease
- Respiratory failure
Comprehensive Evaluations
- Adult and child transplant candidates
Specialized Treatments
- Liver, pancreas, kidney, heart, lung transplants
- Vascular access
- Vascular surgery
- Surgery of the renal arteries
- Cryosurgery and resection for liver tumors
- Surgery of the pancreas and bile ducts
Special Programs
Research Activities
- Islet and pancreas transplantation
- Hepatocyte transplantation
- Cellular mechanisms of alloreactivity
- Clinical trials of new immunosuppressive agents
- Nitric oxide metabolism Osteoarthritis
Services to Physicians
- Consultation on complicated cases
- Second opinions
- Evaluations of patient conditions
- Special treatment procedures
- Short-term and long-term management
This page was last updated on: February 15, 2011.
For more information about the Department of Surgery or to contact
one of our surgeons, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral
Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).
Email
Print
Click to Print
Print Preview
