In 2016, our program continued to thrive:
• Clinic visits of abdominal and heart/lung
transplant patients increased 10 percent.
• Five new transplant surgeons and physician
specialists joined the Baylor Dallas
transplant program.
• The comprehensive STARS transplant patient
database — a central repository for abdominal
and cardiothoracic clinical data — and the
Transplant Biorepository — a bank of serum
and cells from previous transplant recipients
and donors that have been collected and stored
since the program’s inception in 1984 — both
expanded. This is a priceless resource that does
not exist anywhere else in the world.
450 patients at Baylor Dallas and
Baylor Scott & White - Fort Worth
(combined) received transplants.
A record number for the institute.
Five new transplant surgeons
and physician specialists joined
the Baylor Dallas transplant
program in 2016.
450
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The importance of managing the disease process
for transplant patients received laser-focused
attention in 2016. Unified by the idea that
transplant is the treatment of last resort, physicians
working in tandem with outpatient clinics
provided the insight, technology and expertise to
help patients with chronic illnesses stay as healthy
as possible before progressing to the point of
requiring a transplant.
The foundation has been laid to propel the
Baylor Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons
Transplant Institute into an exciting future.
New treatment options, enhanced approaches to
care and improved experiences for patients are
right around the corner. There’s never been a better
time to be involved in the life-changing work
of transplantation.
10 %
Clinic visits of abdominal
and heart/lung transplant
patients increased
10 percent.
Nationally, organ
transplantation increased
8.5 percent in 2016.
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