Transplantation in Arizona

Overview

At Mayo Clinic, compassion and concern for the patient are equal partners with quality care. Transplant programs at Mayo Clinic in Arizona include heart, kidney, pancreas and liver transplants. Since the Transplant Center began caring for patients in 1999, it has performed more than 1,600 organ transplants.

Key to Success

The key to the program's success is the focus on Mayo's primary value — the needs of the patient come first. With the organized and integrated approach to patient care developed through the Mayo Clinic Model of Care, the transplant program has excelled in all three "shields" of the Mayo vision — clinical practice, medical education and research.

Milestones

Mayo Clinic's Transplant Center has performed many "firsts" in Arizona.

• The program performed the first laparoscopic procedure for a living donor kidney transplant in 1999.
• It performed the first living donor liver transplant in 2001, and in 2003 performed the first domino liver transplant in the state.
• Mayo Clinic in Arizona was approved for heart transplantation by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) on Sept. 26, 2005.
• The first heart transplant was performed on Oct. 19, 2005.
• In 2009, Mayo Clinic Arizona celebrates its 10th anniversary, along with the following milestones:
• 1,000 Kidney Transplants
• 500 Liver Transplants
• 50 Heart Transplants