Each year, at the MUHC, over 80 patients receive a kidney transplant. At the end of 2007 more than 600 patients were followed for routine post-transplant care at the kidney transplant clinic. The majority of these kidneys are from deceased donors, but the MUHC is also a provincial leader in living donor kidney transplantation that offers patients several distinct advantages. Surgery can be scheduled electively, recovery times are shorter for recipients, and long ...
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Pancreas transplantation is performed for the treatment of a single disease: type 1, or juvenile, diabetes. This disease often strikes as early as age 2, leaving its victims unable to live without daily injections of insulin, and careful adherence to a measured diet. Even with the best control of blood sugar, many diabetics begin to show side effects of the disease by early adulthood, including blindness, kidney fa ...
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Approximately ten heart transplants – single or multi-organ - are carried out annually at the Royal Victoria Hospital. At the end of 2007, 146 heart transplant recipients were followed at the heart transplant clinic. Additionally, one or two heart transplants in neonates and children are performed at the Montreal Children’s Hospital each year. The MUHC Mechanical Cardiac Assist Program a ...
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