Page 11 - UHN Year In Review 2014-15: Patients As Partners In Care

Highlights

Recently returning to Canada as UHN President and CEO, Dr. Peter Pisters registers to become an
Ontario organ and tissue donor at beadonor.ca (Photo: UHN)

Record year for transplants
More than 500 transplants were performed at UHN last year, setting a new record. Transplant program
innovations, living donations and increased deceased donor rates in Ontario have enabled the program to
do many more transplants. click here

New method to treat lung recipients
A unique new method to treat a specific group of patients who are at greater risk of rejecting
a donor lung, allowing them to live longer after transplant without rejection, has been developed by the
Toronto Lung Transplant Program at UHN.

Assessing, repairing, improving deceased donor livers
Our liver transplant team is developing and refining a method to assess, repair and improve deceased donor
livers. The use of this method could significantly expand the donor organ pool, reduce waiting list time and
improve outcomes after transplantation. The technique also provides information about the liver function
which could assist in future assessment for transplantation.

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