Duke offers experience and expertise in kidney transplants for patients with end-stage kidney disease, as well as kidney/pancreas transplants for patients with type I diabetes and kidney failure.
Kidney transplant surgery itself takes about four hours. Patients usually stay in the hospital for four to six days. You will need to return to Duke frequently for checkups.
Duke performs combined kidney and pancreas transplants as well as kidney transplant followed six months later by a pancreas transplant. Duke does not perform pancreas transplants alone.
The Transplant Office (919-684-5859) can give you a list of transplant centers that perform this procedure.
The kidney/pancreas transplant surgery takes about six to eight hours. These patients generally stay in the hospital seven to 10 days.
About Duke Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Service
Duke is the leading kidney/pancreas program in the Carolinas and Virginia.
In 1965, Duke University Hospital was the first institution in North Carolina to perform a kidney transplant. Since that time Duke has continued to be a leader in the field of kidney transplants. To date, more than 2,500 patients have received a kidney transplant at Duke.
More than 30 percent of these patients transplanted have received a kidney from a living donor. The procedure to remove the kidney from the living donor has been accomplished with a laparoscope rather than an open flank incision in almost all our living donors since 2001.
In 1989, Duke added kidney/pancreas transplants to its list of accomplishments and continues to be the leading kidney/pancreas program in the Carolinas and Virginia. Since 1989, over 250 pancreas transplants have been performed, the majority of them in conjunction with a kidney transplant.
Today many of our patients participate in clinical research trials of new medication regimens to prevent rejection and foster long term function of the transplanted organ.
Transplant Coordinators
Carolyn Boone, RN, MSN
Leslie Hicks, RN, MSN
Judy Smith, RN, BSN
Jennifer Thompson, RN, MSN
Erynn Rathburn, RN, BSN
Anne Marie Taji
Transplant Social Workers
Jessica Farrel, MSW, LCSW
Jennifer Harrill, MSW, LCSW-P
Donna Ryan, MSW, LCSW
Physicians
Physicians offering this service include:
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Berkoben, Michael S.
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Butterly, David W.
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Coffman, Thomas M.
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Collins, Bradley H.
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Surgery /
General Surgery
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Ellis, Matthew J.
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Foreman, John W.
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Greenberg, Arthur
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Kovalik, Eugene C.
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Kuo, Paul C.
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Surgery /
General Surgery
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Martin, Abigail E.
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Surgery /
Pediatric General Surgery
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Surgery /
General Surgery
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Pediatrics /
General Surgery
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Middleton, John P.
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Smith, Stephen R.
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Sudan, Debra L.
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Surgery /
General Surgery
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Wigfall, Delbert R.
Locations
This service is available at:
