Celebrating 46 years of transplant success, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, has more than 7,000 kidney transplants to our credit. Our program is among the largest and oldest kidney transplant programs in the world. You can trust us to put all this world-class experience and expertise into serving you – exceptionally well.

Currently, our one-year patient and kidney graft survival rates are more than 90 percent. Learn more about our kidney transplant success rates at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.

Let us describe more about kidney transplants and its history at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.



What is a kidney transplant?

A kidney transplant is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage kidney disease. Compared to having to be on dialysis, a transplant provides increased longevity and a markedly better quality of life.

More transplant patients than patients on dialysis are able to return to an active lifestyle in their community, school, or the workforce. In some situations, the improvement in survival with transplantation vs. dialysis is dramatic. This is true, for example, in patients with diabetes. In others, there are specific reasons why a transplant is preferred over dialysis — such as improved growth in children.
 

• The first successful kidney transplant was done between identical twins in 1954.
• Almost a decade later, immunosuppressive drugs were developed that allowed non-twin transplants.
• We performed the world’s first kidney-pancreas transplant in 1966.
• In April 2009, we performed our 50th non-directed kidney donor transplant. A non-directed donor is someone who donates a kidney to anyone who might need it. Learn more about our Living Donor Program.
   

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