One son gives the gift of life to his father, a former UPMC heart transplant...
Pittsburgh, PA, June 14, 2011–There’s a 30-year-old Bermudian man who goes about his life quietly on the Island. He doesn’t look to seek out praise. He doesn’t want to be in any sort of limelight. He...
View ArticleA successful heart transplant at UPMC allows patient to spend Father’s Day...
Pittsburgh, PA, June 17, 2011–As Father’s Day approaches, Tom Meshanko is preparing to spend the day with his family in Moraine State Park. He’ll take a boat onto the lake, fish, and spend time with...
View ArticleUPMC is Only Health System Named ‘Most Wired’ for 13 Consecutive Years
PITTSBURGH, July 11, 2011 – For the 13th consecutive year, UPMC has been named one of the 100 “Most Wired” health systems in the country, the only organization to earn that distinction, according to...
View ArticleLeading Lung Cancer Researcher Named to Key Posts at Pitt and University of...
PITTSBURGH, July 25, 2011 – Mark A. Socinski, M.D., a leading expert in lung cancer research, has been appointed director of the Lung Cancer Section of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the...
View ArticlePhotos, Videos, and News Coverage of Landmark Reconstructive Surgeries
Based on groundbreaking research and experience in solid-organ transplants, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has begun a novel clinical study on human hand transplantation that seeks...
View ArticleRule change would aid some who await organs
Pittsburgh, PA, September 12, 2011–A proposed change in the way intestinal organs are allocated could increase access to those organs for people awaiting transplantation, according to a UPMC surgeon...
View ArticleUPMC Transplant Surgeon Abu-Elmagd Named President of Intestinal Transplant...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19, 2011 – Kareem Abu-Elmagd, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Center at UPMC’s Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, has been named...
View ArticleUPMC Surgeons Create 3-D Models to Prepare for Complex Face Transplants
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 28, 2011 – By combining conventional medical imaging with some of the same 3-D modeling techniques used in Hollywood blockbusters, doctors at UPMC are reinventing how plastic surgeons...
View ArticleUPMC to Collaborate with Singapore’s Asian Centre for Liver Diseases &...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 14, 2011 – The Asian Centre for Liver Diseases & Transplantation (ACLDT), based in Singapore, and UPMC announced today that they have signed an interim service agreement to...
View ArticleLiver Disease and Liver Transplantation UPDATE 2012
On Tuesday, February 21, 2012, the American Liver Foundation–Allegheny Division will host a one-day conference featuring highlights from the annual meetings of the American Association for the Study of...
View ArticleUPMC Announces Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Town Hall Meeting
On March 28, 2012, transplant professionals from UPMC’s Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute will host an educational town hall event to provide referring physicians and kidney and pancreas...
View ArticleSurgical Pathology of Organ Transplantation Conference
On May 4 and 5, 2012, join the lively discussion at the Surgical Pathology of Organ Transplantation Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. Organ procurement and the care of the transplanted patient occurs all...
View ArticleUPMC Transplant Hospital in Sicily Performs Its First Pancreatic Islet...
PALERMO, Italy, March 20, 2012 – The Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (ISMETT), operated by UPMC in Palermo, Italy, performed its first pancreatic islet-cell...
View ArticleUPMC Advanced Heart Failure Center to Host Town Hall Session
On Thursday, June 21, experts from the UPMC Advanced Heart Failure Center will host an educational town hall forum to provide information to patients with severe heart failure and health care...
View ArticleNinth Annual PSC Partners Seeking a Cure Conference to be Held in Pittsburgh
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare bile duct disease which may have an autoimmune component. PSC is often associated with ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and related gastrointestinal...
View ArticleISMETT Performs World’s First Fully Robotic Right Hepatectomy for...
PALERMO, Italy June 28, 2012 – Physicians at the Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (ISMETT) have performed the world’s first minimally invasive right liver lobe...
View ArticleClinical Milestone: Excellence, Strong Research Help UPMC Reach 3,000 Heart,...
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15, 2012 – William Ferry almost never made it to UPMC for the transplant that would eventually save his life. Nervous about a surgery that had been performed so little in 1980, Ferry...
View ArticleLiver Disease and Liver Transplantation Update 2012
On Wednesday, November 28, 2012, this event will feature highlights from the annual meetings of American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD); Digestive Diseases Week (DDW); and American...
View ArticleTransplant Effective in Treating Those With Severe Crohn’s Disease, UPMC...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 17, 2012 – Patients suffering from severe Crohn’s disease who were no longer able to tolerate intravenous feedings were able to return to a normal oral diet and saw no clinical...
View ArticlePSC Partners Seeking a Cure Announces Ninth Annual Conference
UPMC is proud to be a sponsorof the PSC Partners Seeking a Cure’s ninth annual conference for physicians and those affected by primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). The conference will be held April 26...
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