{"id":36894,"date":"2010-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/07\/19\/liver-transplant-program-celebrates-25-years\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T05:00:00","slug":"liver-transplant-program-celebrates-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/07\/19\/liver-transplant-program-celebrates-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Liver transplant program celebrates 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nAlisa Attrill Sutton meets Byers Shaw, M.D., at this past weekend’s Transplant Reunion. Sutton’s 1985 transplant marked the UNMC team’s first successful pediatric transplant.<\/span>
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\n<\/TABLE>Twenty-five years ago this month, on July 19, 1985, a team of UNMC surgeons led by Byers Shaw, M.D., and R. Patrick Wood, M.D. (now of Houston) performed the city’s first liver transplant. <\/p>\n

Fourteen liver transplants were performed that year, launching The Nebraska Medical Center’s liver transplant program, the fourth of its kind in the nation at the time. The following year, there were 55 recipients of liver transplants. In 25 years, more than 2,600 liver transplants have been performed. <\/p>\n

The liver transplant program performs about 120 transplants a year, making it easily one of the 10 most active transplant programs of its kind in the nation, said UNMC gastroenterologist Michael Sorrell, M.D.<\/p>\n

The medical center also is one of the premier pediatric liver transplant programs in the world and is one of the most experienced transplant centers in performing split-liver, reduced size and auxiliary liver transplants. <\/p>\n


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