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UC San Diego Health System Transplant Program Receives Federal Certification
September 19, 2012
Recognized by Medicare as Heart-Lung Transplant “Center of Excellence” UC San Diego’s Center for Transplantation has met or exceeded all of its necessary requirements for approval as a center of excellence under the Federal Medicare program.  This... (More)

Radical Surgery Saves Life of Young Mom, California First
January 05, 2012
Liver Removed, Reconstructed, Re-Implanted A team led by Alan Hemming, MD, transplant surgeon at UC San Diego Health System, has successfully performed the west coast’s first ex-vivo liver resection, a radical procedure to completely remove and rec... (More)

Domino Liver Transplant Treats Two Rare Diseases, World First
September 23, 2011
For the first time ever, a surgical team led by Alan Hemming, MD, has successfully performed a domino transplant using a liver with a rare genetic disorder called methylmalonic acidemia (MMA). “This extraordinary procedure allowed us to use one don... (More)

UC San Diego Health System Opens Comprehensive Liver Clinic in Nevada
August 24, 2011
Patients in Nevada seeking care for liver disease may now access the university-level expertise of UC San Diego Health System’s Center for Hepatobiliary Disease and Abdominal Transplantation (CHAT). Led by Robert Gish, MD, world-renowned hepatologis... (More)

A Gene That Fights Cancer, But Causes It Too
May 16, 2011
Over-activation of a single gene promotes leukemia, but its loss causes liver cancer An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospit... (More)

UC San Diego’s Ravi Mehta Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Work in Acute Kidney Injury
April 29, 2011
Ravindra  L. Mehta, MD, FACP, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine’s Division of Nephrology and associate chair of clinical research at the UCSD Department of Medicine, has received the International So... (More)

Two Hearts Beat As One
February 18, 2011
Rare Surgery Gives UC San Diego Health System Patient a Valentine Gift This Valentine’s Day, Tyson Smith woke up with a brand new outlook and two beating hearts – his old failing heart and a newly transplanted heart.  “I can tell that I am getting ... (More)

First Total Artificial Heart Implanted in California at UC San Diego Medical Center
January 24, 2011
On January 7, 2011, UC San Diego Medical Center performed the West Coast’s first implant of the world’s only FDA-approved total artificial heart. During the four-hour procedure, the patient’s diseased heart was completely removed and replaced by a l... (More)

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