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The following handbooks are specific to our kidney and pancreas transplant patients: Patient PDF Handbook Patient PDF Handbook - After Your Transplant

Heart transplantation at LHSC has a long and successful history with the first heart transplant being performed in 1981. Among their over 700 recipients are some of the longest surviving heart recipients in Canada at more than 35 years. Watch the " Celebrating the 600th Heart Transplant " video on...

LHSC is home to one of the oldest and most successful liver transplant programs in the world. Since their first liver transplant in 1977, the Liver Transplant Team at LHSC has performed more than 2000 liver transplants including Canada's longest-surviving recipients at 39 years . Some of our...

The following handbooks are specific to our liver transplant patients: Patient PDF Handbook Patient PDF Handbook - After Your Transplant

Transplant trailblazers By John Miner Copyright 2008 The London Free Press July 12, 2008 They were young, scared and knew they were near death. Twenty-five years later, they're regarded as heroes -- the first women to receive liver transplants and survive in Canada. "They stared death in the face...

Liver Transplant Candidate Assessment (before you are listed for transplant) Every patient being assessed for a liver transplant at LHSC has a physiotherapy assessment. Physical frailty consists of three or more of the following symptoms: weight loss, muscle weakness, fatigue, slow walking speed and...

The number of people waiting for a liver transplant has always been greater than the number of organs available from deceased donors. Many transplant centres now use living donors to help treat end-stage liver disease. In Canada, our centre performed the first parent-to-child and the first adult-to...

Educational Objectives: Learn all aspects of modern immunosuppression including dosing, side effects, and complications. Become familiar with ancillary procedures for technical variations of liver transplant surgery including split-liver transplantation and living-donor transplantation. Learn all...

Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients and hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients are susceptible to infectious complications following transplantation. These complications can lead to considerable morbidity and sometimes death. The management of infectious diseases in SOT and HSCT...

LHSC offers a cardiac surgery fellowship. The goal of the Surgical Fellowship is to obtain training and experience in the preoperative assessment of candidates for heart transplantation, in donor heart procurement, in the performance of orthotopic heart transplantation and in postoperative care. The...