Tag: transplant

Next month, Raymond Vetuskey will celebrate his 65th birthday with predictable fanfare though the occasion is anything but routine, since he’s living with a ‘rare’ 100-year-old kidney. Calculating ...

A Rochester father of five received a second chance at life when an organ donor and doctors at University of Rochester Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital provided a new heart. It was the 400th time ...

Heroic individuals’ lifesaving generosity is in the spotlight as University of Rochester Medicine expanded the Gifts of Life Honor Wall at Strong Memorial Hospital. Last year nearly 250 people ...

Each morning John Lefrois is “grateful to open my eyes and take a breath. It’s a daily reminder that I’m lucky to be alive.” LeFrois and nearly 400 others have received new hearts, thanks to generous ...

The nationally recognized surgeon-scientist will be the inaugural research director of the Transplant Institute and lead efforts to expand transplant research, grow clinical trials, and strengthen ...

UR Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital recently provided its 1,000th heart pump, a lifesaving therapy for patients with advanced heart failure. This milestone has been attained by only a handful of ...

Denise Abbey felt her “life was slowly slipping away” in 2022, as her heart was failing and doctors added her to the wait list for a new heart. She feared she wouldn’t survive to raise her teen boys. ...

UR Medicine is celebrating the heroes whose donations of organs, eye, tissue and bone marrow provided second chances for critically ill patients last year. Their names will be unveiled on the Gift of ...

Patients who have colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver come from all over the U.S. to have living-donor liver transplants at the University of Rochester Medical Center. A new report shows ...

Michelle Miller and her brother, Jordan, found the strength to demonstrate compassion and generosity when a tragic accident took their sister’s life. Amid shock and grief, they chose to donate her ...