Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Archive Liver Transplant
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2026
February
26,
2026
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai completed 677 solid organ transplants in 2025, setting several new institutional records in liver and lung transplant.Irene Kim, MD, …
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2025
November
04,
2025
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai hepatology experts are available for media interviews throughout the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases’ annual Liver Meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov. 7-11, 2025.Investigators and clinicians will present research, …
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February
28,
2025
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute set a new record in 2024 by completing 682 solid organ transplants—the most the medical center has performed in a year—as patient survival outcomes continued to meet or …
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2024
February
02,
2024
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute together completed 652 solid organ transplants in 2023, far outpacing Cedars-Sinai’s internal record set just one year ago, when surgeons completed 583 transplants.Known for …
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2023
December
04,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This holiday season, Valance Sams, Sr. hopes to finish the most important thank-you note he’s ever written—one he’s been pondering for months. It’s been challenging to get all that he wants to say down on paper, in just the right way. Most days, a …
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November
22,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This Thanksgiving marks a little more than 25 years since Christine Galan became the first person in the Western U.S. to have a combined organ transplant (heart and liver), and nearly five years since she returned to Cedars-Sinai for another organ …
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July
24,
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Valance Sams Sr.’s world was turned upside down 10 years ago when he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a rare inflammatory disease that caused a buildup of scar tissue on his heart and left him unable to work, exercise or even walk.But today, Sams …
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July
17,
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Fiscal year 2023, which ended June 30, proved to be the busiest year yet for Cedars-Sinai’s Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute, with more than 600 organs transplanted.The kidney/pancreas transplant team completed 317 …
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