Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
December 14, 2012

Kashla was just 29 years old when she faced kidney failure for the second time. Her transplanted kidney had lasted 17 years, but now...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 19, 2012

Dr. Luke Shen was featured on San Antonio Living this week to talk about the touching transplant procedure in which WOAI news reporter Kristina...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

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...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

Sharing a database of incompatible kidney recipients and donors means new hope for many more kidney transplant patients: Innovative Kidney Transplant...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

Texas Transplant Institute at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital has been named the #1 provider of living donor kidney transplants in...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

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 ...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

To watch Wendy Rigby's report on Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital's 16-way kidney paired exchange donor transplants, click here. The...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

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...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

Samuel Smith from Charlotte, Vermont, is one of 16 kidney transplant patients to participate in Texas Transplant Institute's history-making donor...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

The Non-Directed Kidney Donor Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital continues to break records--and save lives--with 23 kidney...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

Kidney transplant recipient Oscar Jimenez is about to enjoy his first Christmas with a new kidney thanks to a generous co-worker, Lisa Delgado...

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Texas Transplant Physician Group is proud to announce that Dr. Michael Kwan and Dr. Chandra Kunavarapu have passed their board exams for a new...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

Warren Sallach, 59, received a stem cell transplant at Texas Transplant Institute's Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program in San...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

Texas Transplant Institute's Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital is the largest program of ...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

Read the heart-warming San Antonio Express-News article about Sandy Elizardo, a nurse at Methodist and Specialty Transplant Hospital in San Antonio...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 14, 2012

The Liver Transplant Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital is recognized as the best liver transplant program in the country...

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Check out Express-News coverage of our Liver Transplant program results and its impact on a local family:

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 10, 2012

Congenital Heart Surgeon Dr. John Kupferschmid performs a hybrid heart procedure--the first of its kind at Methodist Children's Hospital.

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 10, 2012

Avid hiker and marathon walker, Bill, 59, knows a lot about overcoming obstacles and testing his endurance. But when his illness required him...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 10, 2012

After getting chemotherapy for stage IV follicular lymphoma at Southwest Texas Regional Cancer Center (now Texas Oncology) in Austin, Texas, ...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
September 10, 2012

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...

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Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 22, 2012

Less than three months after his third open heart surgery, Carson was recently running around Disney World "like a little maniac", laughs his...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 22, 2012

Daniel was born in November 2006 with Tetralogy of Fallot, ventricular septal defect and pulmonary artery atresia-;three potentially fatal congenital...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 15, 2012

Cole was born with a severe form of spina bifida, hydrocephalus and Chiari malformation. After several surgeries in his first couple months of...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 15, 2012

Just after he was born, Daniel was diagnosed with serious congenital heart defects and underwent a number of difficult emergency procedures. ...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 15, 2012

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...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 15, 2012

Five months into her pregnancy with Brock, Gena was devastated to learn he had a congenital heart defect-;the left ventricle was missing. Her...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 15, 2012

A sus escasos cuatro años de vida, Sophia ha enfrentado grandes obstáculos. Sophia quien padece Síndrome de Down, nació...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 15, 2012

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...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 15, 2012

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'...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
June 14, 2012

Dr. John Kupferschmid and a team of heart specialists from Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas* are working with local surgeons in McAllen...

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"The community of heart transplant cardiologists in Texas is a small one. My membership on this Executive Committee is a great way to communicate...

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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...

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The KENS 5 story featuring Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgeon, Dr. Juan Palma-Vargas discuss the high incidence of liver cancer in...

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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 Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

Methodist Heart Hospital, a campus of Methodist Hospital, and home to Texas Transplant Institute's Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Program...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

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)...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

Lejos estaba Leticia de imaginar que a sus 50 años, su vida cambiaría de un día para otro.

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

Tom, 50, is a lot of things: a devoted husband, doting father, Army First Sergeant, world traveler, and somewhat accident-prone weekend warrior...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

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.

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

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...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

Despite a strong family history of kidney disease, Larry, 64 a retired United States Air Force Major General, was totally unprepared to learn...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

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...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

When Laura was 30 weeks pregnant with her fourth child she ran into Dr. Mahendra Patel whom she had met eight years earlier.

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

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...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

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...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

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...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 31, 2012

Knowing his father's first transplanted kidney would eventually need to be replaced, Bob, a real estate developer from Utah, always expected ...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 10, 2012

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...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 10, 2012

After receiving abnormal blood results from lab tests for the cholesterol medication she was taking, Reesa was seen by Dr. David Friedman, a ...

Methodist Physician Practices, PLLC
May 10, 2012

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...