Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Archive Transplant
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2026
March
25,
2026
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America/Los_Angeles
Angelica Ponce was on cloud nine. She was in her mid-20s and starting her dream job as a kindergarten teacher. Recently, she also had become engaged to her high school sweetheart and was excited to start wedding planning.Within weeks, though, …
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March
05,
2026
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America/Los_Angeles
A Cedars-Sinai surgeon recently performed the medical center’s first fully robotic kidney transplant, paving the way for more patients to undergo the less invasive method, which results in less pain and faster healing for patients.For nearly two …
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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
August
21,
2025
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07:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Innovative transplant nephrologist and investigator Stanley Jordan, MD, has received the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Transplantation.Jordan, the director of Nephrology and medical director of the Cedars-Sinai Kidney …
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June
18,
2025
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America/Los_Angeles
The choice was ice cream or chocolate cake.After a successful kidney-pancreas transplant at the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center, Janine Roberson was thrilled to finally get the doctor’s OK to eat solid foods. But when a dietitian …
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April
15,
2025
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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
06,
2025
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When life gets bleak for Destany Epps-Manuel, 36, she knows the only way to go is forward.That’s what she’s been doing since she was 22, when she was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a rare disease that causes the heart muscle to weaken and, …
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2024
December
18,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai is participating in a major national research and surgical effort aimed at curing total blindness through whole eye transplantation, a pioneering approach to restoring vision. The organization has been selected to receive up to $6 …
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November
26,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Identical twins Linda Thomas and Karen Rodman, 56, have shared everything from the moment they were born. The Las Vegas residents live less than five miles from each other. They work together, carpool together, shop together. Their phone numbers …
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August
08,
2024
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08:31 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Liver transplant is considered the best treatment for liver cancer, but only available for patients with early-stage disease. Now a study led by Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators has concluded that immunotherapy could make liver transplant an option …
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April
29,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Charles Schulz and his wife, Flor, sat in their living room on New Year’s Eve 2023, watching TV and counting down the seconds until the ball dropped in New York’s Times Square. After the clock struck midnight, the couple kissed and Flor said to her …
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March
13,
2024
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
For the fourth consecutive year, the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy at Cedars-Sinai has achieved higher than expected survival rates in patients receiving allogeneic stem cell …
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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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