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The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program has become a world leader in this difficult and demanding area of children’s medicine for a number of important reasons.High Success RatesThe LPCH Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program has achieved one of the highest success rates in the United States and the world. For example, every single one of the 50 children who received a living-donor transplant at LPCH between January 1, 2001, and June 30, 2003, had a functioning kidney three years later. For comparison’s sake, the average three-year transplant-survival rate in the United States is 88 percent.Back to top Where Care Meets ScienceThe Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program brings together research and clinical care in a single integrated approach. Because the program is a leader in research on kidney disease in children, your child receives the most advanced care available.Here are some of the areas where LPCH’s Kidney Transplant Program has led the way:
Depth and Breadth of Medical ExperienceThe LPCH Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program’s excellence in research and treatment is underscored by referrals of patients from other leading academic hospitals. To date, patients from 21 states and seven countries outside the U.S. have been referred to the program.Many of these cases come to the Kidney Transplant Program because they pose challenges few other medical centers can meet. These patients include newborns with kidney failure from birth, infants with kidney failure caused by structural abnormalities of the urinary system present at birth, and mothers carrying unborn children with major kidney defects. In addition, LPCH offers the only cystinosis clinic on the West Coast, as well as the largest such clinic in the country and possibly the world. This rare metabolic disorder causes the amino acid cystine to build to abnormal levels in the body, severely damaging the kidney, eye, thyroid and muscles. Although kidney transplantation forestalls the kidney failure cystinosis can lead to, the disease’s other effects remain. The clinic provides the difficult monitoring necessary to assess the disease and provides needed medications, such as special drops to remove cystine crystals from the eyes. Back to top Compassionate, Collaborative, Team-Based CareThe Pediatric Kidney Transplant Team focuses on infants, children and young people, not on cases and procedures. Transplant surgeons work in close concert with nephrologists (kidney specialists), pediatric surgeons, liver transplant surgeons, nurse clinicians, social workers, financial counselors, dietitians and support staff to provide comprehensive, coordinated, cross-disciplinary care for your child.Back to top To Find out MoreClick any of the links below:
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.
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