Transplantation Services

Innovation. Experience. Hope.

Patients facing organ failure can find hope at UPMC. Since 1981, we have performed more than 17,000 organ transplants, and our role as a pioneer in solid organ transplantation has allowed us to develop some of the most extensive clinical expertise in the field, giving hope to patients across the country and around the world.

Advancing transplant medicine

• For more than 30 years, UPMC has defined the field of transplantation — from the early years when Dr. Thomas E. Starzl pioneered a new field of surgery, to the development of immunosuppressive therapies.
• These advancements in the field of transplantation have given hope to thousands of patients facing organ failure.
• Our depth of experience has allowed us to continuously innovate and lead efforts to discover new and better therapies to help reduce the potential for organ rejection.

UPMC Transplant News
and Events

• Struggling with a disease that nearly destroyed her lungs, Gretchen Warner came to UPMC to receive a groundbreaking double lung transplant. Watch the story on WTAE.
• This Valentine's Day, Bobby Benner celebrates ten years since receiving a heart transplant at UPMC. Read the Herald Star story.
• Drs. Chopra and Ganesh discuss the recent advancements in treating patients with hepatitis C. Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story.
• Three years after receiving a kidney transplant at UPMC, Abeid Johnson spends this Christmas with his expanded family. Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story.
• A successful heart transplant at UPMC allows Tom Meshanko to spend Father's Day with his children and grandchildren. Read the Forest Hills-Regent Square Patch article.
• Transplant Guardian Angels at UPMC provide comfort and patient- and family-centered care. Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.
• UPMC leads nation in number of lung transplants, including country's most complicated cases. Read the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story.
• UPMC joins multi-state kidney chain involving 32 operations and 16 transplants. Read the KDKA story.
• Read about lifesaving living-donor kidney transplant at UPMC between two brothers.
• Read about a lifesaving liver transplant performed by UPMC surgeons.
• UPMC completes 2,500th cardiothoracic transplant.