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Kashla was just 29 years old when she faced kidney failure for the second time. Her transplanted kidney had lasted 17 years, but now...
Dr. Luke Shen was featured on San Antonio Living this week to talk about the touching transplant procedure in which WOAI news reporter Kristina...
Watch a video from KENS 5 about Texas Transplant Physician Group's Dr. Juan Palma and his unique surgical technique to remove an orange-sized...
Sharing a database of incompatible kidney recipients and donors means new hope for many more kidney transplant patients: Innovative Kidney Transplant...
Texas Transplant Institute at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital has been named the #1 provider of living donor kidney transplants in...
Read Dr. Adam Bingaman's Letter to the Editor in the September 9, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrating how Kidney ...
To watch Wendy Rigby's report on Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital's 16-way kidney paired exchange donor transplants, click here. The...
See more about the 17 kidney donors and 16 kidney recipients who helped make history this week in Jennifer Dodd's report from Methodist Specialty...
Samuel Smith from Charlotte, Vermont, is one of 16 kidney transplant patients to participate in Texas Transplant Institute's history-making donor...
The Non-Directed Kidney Donor Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital continues to break records--and save lives--with 23 kidney...
Kidney transplant recipient Oscar Jimenez is about to enjoy his first Christmas with a new kidney thanks to a generous co-worker, Lisa Delgado...
Texas Transplant Physician Group is proud to announce that Dr. Michael Kwan and Dr. Chandra Kunavarapu have passed their board exams for a new...
Warren Sallach, 59, received a stem cell transplant at Texas Transplant Institute's Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program in San...
Texas Transplant Institute's Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital is the largest program of ...
Read the heart-warming San Antonio Express-News article about Sandy Elizardo, a nurse at Methodist and Specialty Transplant Hospital in San Antonio...
The Liver Transplant Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital is recognized as the best liver transplant program in the country...
Check out Express-News coverage of our Liver Transplant program results and its impact on a local family:
Congenital Heart Surgeon Dr. John Kupferschmid performs a hybrid heart procedure--the first of its kind at Methodist Children's Hospital.
Avid hiker and marathon walker, Bill, 59, knows a lot about overcoming obstacles and testing his endurance. But when his illness required him...
After getting chemotherapy for stage IV follicular lymphoma at Southwest Texas Regional Cancer Center (now Texas Oncology) in Austin, Texas, ...
It's quite rare for a husband's kidney to be the perfect match for his wife who desperately needed a transplant but it happened recently at Texas...
Less than three months after his third open heart surgery, Carson was recently running around Disney World "like a little maniac", laughs his...
Daniel was born in November 2006 with Tetralogy of Fallot, ventricular septal defect and pulmonary artery atresia-;three potentially fatal congenital...
Cole was born with a severe form of spina bifida, hydrocephalus and Chiari malformation. After several surgeries in his first couple months of...
Just after he was born, Daniel was diagnosed with serious congenital heart defects and underwent a number of difficult emergency procedures. ...
Cole was born with a severe form of spina bifida, hydrocephalus and Chiari malformation. He had his first surgery 45 minutes after he was born...
Five months into her pregnancy with Brock, Gena was devastated to learn he had a congenital heart defect-;the left ventricle was missing. Her...
A sus escasos cuatro años de vida, Sophia ha enfrentado grandes obstáculos. Sophia quien padece Síndrome de Down, nació...
When the Emergency Room physician told Drew's dad, Matt, that from that day forward their lives were going to change forever, he couldn't have...
Despite having had 11 brain surgeries in his first three years of life, Cole' s mom says he' s a perfectly normal child. “His legs don'...
Dr. John Kupferschmid and a team of heart specialists from Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas* are working with local surgeons in McAllen...
"The community of heart transplant cardiologists in Texas is a small one. My membership on this Executive Committee is a great way to communicate...
Board-certified Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist Dr. Chandra Kunavarapu with Texas Transplant Physician Group joins the Executive...
Dr. Charles Frederick LeMaistre, Medical Director, Texas Institute of Medicine and Surgery, is pleased to announce that Dr. Carlos Bachier has...
The KENS 5 story featuring Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgeon, Dr. Juan Palma-Vargas discuss the high incidence of liver cancer in...
In her blog from the National Meeting of the Heart Failure Society, Ileana Peña, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC, discusses the newest subspecialty...
Demonstrating the latest technology in Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) available at Texas Transplant Institute's Advanced Heart Failure and...
Methodist Heart Hospital, a campus of Methodist Hospital, and home to Texas Transplant Institute's Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Program...
Being African-American and having type AB positive blood, Ray knew that finding a bone marrow donor match to treat his non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)...
Lejos estaba Leticia de imaginar que a sus 50 años, su vida cambiaría de un día para otro.
Tom, 50, is a lot of things: a devoted husband, doting father, Army First Sergeant, world traveler, and somewhat accident-prone weekend warrior...
During lunch one day in the cafeteria, Gary, a San Antonio bus driver, started coughing. He thought he was choking on a piece of chicken.
When Giovanni was born, he was two months premature, had cysts on his brain and his lungs were not fully developed. Three days later his parents...
Despite a strong family history of kidney disease, Larry, 64 a retired United States Air Force Major General, was totally unprepared to learn...
It's not uncommon for teenagers to stay up all night playing video games or surfing the internet. But that's not why 15-year-old John Michael...
When Laura was 30 weeks pregnant with her fourth child she ran into Dr. Mahendra Patel whom she had met eight years earlier.
Thirty-six-year-old Kelley, wife, mother of three young boys and fitness buff, was doing the first sit-up with her personal trainer on a Thursday...
These words came to Suzette in prayer at an evening church service when the service was abruptly halted to announce that the sister of a fellow...
Imagine you desperately need a kidney transplant. You spend four hours a day, three days a week for five months on dialysis. And you've got multiple...
Knowing his father's first transplanted kidney would eventually need to be replaced, Bob, a real estate developer from Utah, always expected ...
Jeanne and her family have recently been communicating with Jeanne's bone marrow donor, a young man from Germany who is scheduled to travel to...
After receiving abnormal blood results from lab tests for the cholesterol medication she was taking, Reesa was seen by Dr. David Friedman, a ...
In June 2007, at just three weeks old, William broke out in a rash covering his face, arms and legs. It was eventually diagnosed as Sweet syndrome...