Transplant Services

With the aid of new technology, thousands of Texans now have access to life-saving robot-aided kidney transplant surgeries. The technology lessens the risks for the surgery, especially for those who carry extra weight by making smaller incisions, which lead to a big impact.

Giuliano Testa, MD, joined the ranks of the TIME 100 Most Influential People of 2018 as an innovative medical leader whose work is making an impact on the world. Dr. Testa is the chief of abdominal transplantation and principal investigator for the uterus transplant clinical trials at Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health.

Surgeries and procedures delayed for several weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic have resumed at places like Baylor Scott & White, completing the journey for a north Texas elementary school receptionist and the parent of a student who agreed to help save her life.

As Baylor Scott & White Health resumes scheduling surgeries and procedures, the transplant team at Baylor University Medical Center marks a milestone: In one single weekend, a total of eight patients were able to safely receive life-saving organ transplants, thanks to new measures quickly put in place to offer a safe environment for all patients in need of care.

Eric Daniell spent more than a decade ministering to others as a hospital chaplain at the Dallas VA Medical Center. And in his own time of need after a lifesaving heart transplant, it was a veteran who ministered to him, helping Eric restore his body and spirit through a unique form of rehabilitation — martial arts.

Like most women in their early 20s, Madison Gibbs is healthy, but there's one thing that she's struggled with her entire life. Gibbs, 22, who grew up with a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser Syndrome or MRKH, was born without a uterus.

Ja’Niece DeCay promised to love her husband through sickness and in health. What she didn’t realize was that one day she would offer an even greater sacrifice to her husband’s brother — her own kidney.

For Peyton Meave and Kayla Edwards, pregnancy would have never been possible without another woman’s donation of her uterus. Following transplant surgeries and successful pregnancies, Meave and Edwards got to meet their donors, Elaine Candeloro and Jonna Hawkes.

13-year-old Randy Lopez is no stranger to pain. Ever since he was a toddler, Randy has battled the pain of a genetic disease called chronic pancreatitis — until now. Thanks to a total pancreatectomy with islet cell transplantation, Randy is looking forward to life without pain.