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The UW Medicine Kidney Transplant Program provides comprehensive and compassionate care for people with end-stage renal disease.
From July 2007-2010, our surgeons performed over 550 kidney transplants. And according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), the 3-year UWMC adult kidney-transplant postoperative survival rates significantly exceeded comparable rates of patients nationally (
95.4% [UW] versus 91.3% [national average], 12/31/2010).
- Among our kidney-transplant candidates, half had received a donor organ 31 months after being placed on the wait list versus the nationwide average of 49 months (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients [SRTR], 12/31/2010).
UW Medicine’s transplant team is also experienced at planning and performing sophisticated living-donor transplants; we’ve done more than 500 living donor nephrectomies.
Connie Davis, MD, UWMC Kidney Care Director, is on the board of the National Kidney Registry, an organization that helps increase the likelihood of finding a matching living donor nationally.
But it’s not just about the day of your surgery. Throughout the pre- and post-transplant process, our patients often see specialists from other disciplines, such as radiology, oncology, cardiology, vascular and infectious disease. All are experienced in treating kidney dysfunction and all are here at UWMC.
- And if necessary, we can also transplant other organs – the pancreas, liver or heart – at the same time we perform your kidney transplant.
Did you know?
Our transplant center was awarded a 2010 Silver Medal for outstanding clinical outcomes by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.
- This esteemed award was given to only 1.4 percent of all transplant programs in the nation.