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2026
February
26,
2026
| 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
April
15,
2025
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Chris McCain was dying. He knew it. His wife, daughter and son also knew it. Years ago, at age 37, Chris had undergone a double lung transplant, but now those lungs were failing.At first, Chris noticed he’d be out of breath while carrying equipment
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February
28,
2025
| 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
| 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
July
17,
2023
| 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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