Transplantation Center of Excellence

Transplantation at Jefferson

If disease or injury has brought you down the path to organ transplantation, your journey will be filled with fear, hope, trust and patience. Today, transplants are more successful than ever before. The pioneering transplant surgeons have contributed to these successes.

At Jefferson, you can rely on the best in transplantation care, innovation and research. Jefferson's Transplant Programs provide you with a multidisciplinary approach throughout your treatment and follow-up care. The Philadelphia region's best medical specialists and surgeons will assess your condition and prepare a carefully designed treatment plan tailored just for you.

Jefferson is certified by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to provide the following transplantations: heart, liver (live and deceased donor), kidney (live and deceased donor) and pancreas. Jefferson also offers dual solid organ transplants: kidney/pancreas, kidney/heart and kidney/liver.

Departments and Services

Jefferson nephrologists play a significant and personalized role in transplantation and participate in weekly meetings to evaluate transplant candidates based on medical testing, psychological evaluation and the discussion of the benefits and risks of transplantation.

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For patients with diabetes, a pancreas transplant is carefully considered with all the latest therapeutic options. Ranked as a Center of Excellence for Diabetes by Philadelphia magazine, physicians of Jefferson's Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases provide comprehensive care for patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity and thyroid nodules and goiters.

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Our surgeons perform more than 150 transplants per year, and we maintain an active role with the post-transplant patient. Transplant surgeons at Jefferson are using a new method called "bloodless" liver resection to safely remove up to 75 percent of the largest organ in the human body. The technique is improving patients' odds and cutting recovery time in half.

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At the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Center, our cardiologists and surgeons have collectively performed more than 1,200 lifetime heart transplants.

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