• Liver Transplant and Obesity: Big Difference in Statistics

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    • 20th Jan 2013

    • A compilation of data at the University of Maryland in Baltimore shows that being obese after liver transplant decrease your chance of survival significantly.  Dr Fayed and his group performed 285 liver transplants between 2000 and 2008 representing an average of 35 surgeries every year.  The patients with a body mass index (BMI) of more than 30 had their survival rate threatened because of their obesity. BMI According to the National Institutes of Health, a BMI of 30 and greater

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  • How to Choose your Organ Transplant Center

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    • 4th Oct 2011

    • It may not be easy to decide where to have your organ transplant with all the options you can find out there. Every hospital promotes itself as the best in its category (you have heard that before, right?!). The patients who live in a large metropolitan area are lucky because they may have access to several hospitals close to home. Kidney transplant is the surgery that is the most performed and has the most widespread locations. Hospitals are competing for

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