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ons 10 days
32 transplants
University Hospital Foundation donors have given millions of dollars
in support of transplant patient care and research over the past

Watch & Learn
Layton Patterson shares
his story.

20 years. This community support has played a pivotal role in the
Transplant Program at the University of Alberta Hospital evolving into
the most comprehensive Organ and Transplant Program in Canada.
Never has the ability of the transplant program to deliver life-saving care to
desperately ill patients been more clearly defined than during a ten-day stretch
in the summer of 2014 – July 18 to July 27 – when six surgeons performed an
incredible 32 transplants: three lung, four heart, eight liver, five islet, one whole
pancreas, one kidney/pancreas, and ten kidney.
Not only is that a new provincial record, says Mike Bentley, Patient Care Manager,
Transplant Services, University of Alberta Hospital, but a testament to all areas of
the hospital that contribute to successful transplant procedures.
“Transplantation impacts the whole system,” says Bentley. “From the operating
rooms to the intensive care units to diagnostic imaging and all the lab work that
has to be completed. It takes a robust and mature system that does a lot of
transplants to handle this sort of a surge.”
Without donor support, the Transplant Program at the University of Alberta
Hospital would not be what it is today, says Dr. Norm Kneteman, Director, Division
of Transplantation, University of Alberta Hospital.

LEADING THE WAY IN IMPROVING HEART
News
AND LUNG TRANSPLANTS
MEDIA PLANET

1985

Donors
made it

possible

First heart transplant is
performed in Western Canada
at the University of Alberta
Hospital.

2000
Donor funded research that led to the
formation of the Edmonton Protocol
in islet transplantation is published
in The New England Journal of
Medicine. LEARN MORE...

ONE IN A HUNDRED
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) is a
rare disorder that causes small blood
vessels in the skin, intestines, and
kidneys to become inflamed and to
start bleeding. Typically, HSP is treated
and cured within a few weeks.
Unless you’re one of the
approximately 1% of people who
experience a much more significant
form of the condition. Like Layton
Patterson, 21, of Hythe, Alberta (50
kilometers west of Grande Prairie).
Diagnosed when he was 16, Layton
endured three bouts of HSP by the
time he was 18.
As further health complications
developed, doctors told Layton that
he needed a kidney transplant.
In July, Layton received his new
kidney along with 32 other patients
who received transplants at the
University of Alberta Hospital in a
record-breaking, 10-day span.

2009
Festival of Trees raises $1 million
for Transplant Operating Room.
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