The Catalyst Issue 18 | April 2014 | Page 14

INNOVATION | to heal patients and give them hope Donating Organs Saves Lives CORNEAL Selectively replaces the diseased parts of the cornea. Depending on the patient’s condition, the success rate can be more than 90%. HEART Removes a damaged or diseased heart and replaces it with a healthy donor heart. The overall survival rate is almost 90% after one year. LUNG Helps those whose lungs are no longer performing their function of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide. Scott & White is the only lung transplant program between Dallas and San Antonio. KIDNEY AND PANCREAS Includes kidney, kidney/pancreas and pancreas-after-kidney transplants. Donor organs can come from deceased donors, live donors, or altruistic donors (living donors who do not know the recipient). BLOOD STEM CELL Delivers healthy stem cells into the patient to replace bone marrow that is either not working properly or