A new era of innovation in transplantation at Cleveland Clinic in Florida

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The Transplant Center at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital is one of two centers in Florida performing living donor kidney and liver transplantations for adult recipients. Since 2013, the Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital transplant team has performed over 220 living donor transplantations.

In this episode of the Florida Health Care Insider podcast, presented by Cleveland Clinic in Florida in partnership with the South Florida Business Journal, David Reich, MD, surgical director of the Liver Transplant Program and chief of the Innovative Technology and Therapeutics Program of the Transplant Center at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital, delves into the transplant program.

“Many programs in the U.S. aren’t situated to do this or to do it frequently,” Reich said. “And many candidates for liver transplants don’t have a live donor and for some recipients it’s not the right choice. But for those 5%, a little higher percent of the people in (our) clinic, it's a phenomenal solution for these patient problems.”
Most liver transplants performed at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital’s Transplant Center involve the use of machine perfusion, an advanced organ preservation technique that circulates oxygenated blood or other fluids through the donor organ before transplantation.

“We have several devices, a machine perfusion room and a machine perfusion laboratory for the research we’re doing,” Reich said. “We have a machine perfusion research team, and the program is just taking off. It is very exciting and we’re unique in that we have so many different facets for doing it here.”

Listen to this episode to hear about:

•Cleveland Clinic leaders in the field of transplantation (5:29)
•The approach to treating patients with liver tumors (7:29)
•Where most Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital transplant patients are from (16:08)

Learn more at ClevelandClinicFlorida.org/Transplant.

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