Solid Organ Transplant

The Transplant Center

About the Transplant Center

Adult Transplant Program

Pediatric Transplant Program

Making an Appointment

Plan Your Visit

How to Donate an Organ

For Health Care Professionals and Payers

Maps, Directions and Parking

Cutting Edge Conference Presentations 2009

The Transplant Center
Phillips-Wangensteen Building
Room 2-200
516 Delaware St. S.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

University of Minnesota
Medical Center
www.uofmmedicalcenter.org

University of Minnesota
Amplatz Children's Hospital
www.uofmchildrenshospital.org

Patient information:
612-672-7270 or
800-328-5465

Physician referral for
Heart and Lung transplant:
612-625-9922 or
800-478-5864

Physician referral for
all other organs:
612-625-5115 or
800-328-5465

Welcome to the Transplant Center

Welcome to the Transplant Center at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview and University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital. Our goal is to provide unsurpassed care for anyone whose life is touched by a solid organ transplant. We offer the expertise of University of Minnesota Physicians along with the supporting resources you need — all in a single location.

Transplant Center 2009 Year-End Report
and message from Timothy Pruett, M.D.
Chief of Transplantation

Transplant Center News

The latest solid organ transplant news

	Donor Family and Transplant Recipient Picnic Please join us for an informal gathering of individuals within the LifeSource region who have been impacted by donation and transplantation.
	700th Heart Transplant at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview Heart Specialists with University of Minnesota Physicians completed their 700th heart transplant on Feb 2, on a 47-year-old man from North Dakota.
	University of Minnesota Medical Center is now blogging about Living Kidney Donation! Our Transplant Center has the largest Living Donor Program in the country and our living donor team has a wealth of expertise and insight to share around this topic.

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Patient Stories

	Tweeting for a kidney. R U kidding? The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports on a man who donated a kidney at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview after responding to a plea on Twitter.

	Minnesota man gives coworker a kidney at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview Two coworkers from different countries found they were a "match" leading to a living kidney donation that saved the life of one of them.

	The gift of a heart gave one Burnsville man and his family a new lease on life Nearly two years after his heart transplant at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, Doug and Gina Larson are grateful for the gift of life given to their family by his donor.

	Twitter Connection Leads to Successful Transplant at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview Man in search of a living kidney donor finds a match among his Twitter and Facebook friends.

	Kidney donor now needs a kidney herself In a rare turn of events, a woman who donated a kidney to her husband 12 years ago now needs a kidney transplant of her own.

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