Mother’s Day was more special than usual for the women who have gone through the Uterus Transplant Program at Baylor University Medical Center (Baylor Dallas), part of Baylor Scott & White Health. On May 7, Baylor Dallas hosted a reunion at the Dallas Arboretum for the women who received a uterus transplant, the 15 babies born so far and their families. Most of the recipients were joined by the living uterus donors who are so vital to the success of the program.
“We are celebrating the families, the donors and the mothers who put their faith in us to perform a transplant that was completely new,” says Liza Johannesson, MD, PhD, gynecologic surgeon on the medical staff and medical director of uterus transplantation at Baylor Dallas. “We also hope the reunion has spread awareness of uterine factor infertility and that there is a way of treating it.”
The Baylor University Medical Center uterus transplant program is the first commercial program in the United States, and has done more transplants and delivered more babies than any program in the world.
Donors, recipient families, physicians and nurses gathered to celebrate the births made possible through uterine transplant donation
Baylor Dallas establishes multidisciplinary clinic for alcohol-associated liver disease
Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is a major driver of liver-related morbidity and mortality across the world. There are 2.4 billion alcohol users (950 million heavy alcohol users) and between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 people abuse or misuse alcohol.
Baylor University Medical Center performs its first robotic kidney transplant
Transplant surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center (Baylor Dallas), part of Baylor Scott & White Health, recently performed their first robotic kidney transplant. While robotic donor nephrectomies have been performed for more than five years, this was the program’s first robotic kidney transplant recipient surgery and the first such transplant in Texas.
Baylor Scott & White researchers identify a novel site for islet cell transplantation
Patients experiencing the intractable pain of chronic pancreatitis may be candidates for total pancreatectomy followed by autologous islet cell transplantation (TPIAT). This innovative procedure has been documented to be very effective in controlling pain and restoring insulin secretion in a large number of patients.
Baylor Scott & White Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute hosts conference on donation after circulatory death
While the number of organ donations after circulatory death (DCD) continues to grow in the United States and worldwide, it is yet to be accepted universally as a viable option to serve patients on the waiting list. Donation after circulatory death was the topic of the 7thInnovations in Transplant Summit, hosted April 22 and 23 by Baylor University Medical Center (Baylor Dallas), part of Baylor Scott & White Health.
Liver acquisition costs increase after implementation of acuity circle allocation policy
Acuity circles (AC) liver allocation policy was implemented to eliminate donor service area geographic boundaries from liver allocation and to decrease variability in median model of end-stage liver disease (MELD) score at transplant and wait list mortality. A team of researchers at Baylor Scott & White Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute found that the new policy also significantly increased transportation costs and acquisition fees.