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Organ and Tissue Transplant Program
Giving patients a second chance at life.
Every day about 600 Albertans with end-stage organ failure wait anxiously for the phone to ring - for a call that offers them a second chance at life.
For many patients who die on organ wait lists every year in Alberta, it's a phone call that never comes.
Alberta has historically faced low donor rates, and a high need for transplantable organs. In 2015, 300 organ transplant were performed at the University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta Health Services’ centre for organ transplantation in Northern Alberta, and the most comprehensive organ and tissue donation centre in Canada. These transplants were received from 84 organ donors. Meanwhile, 401 patients were waiting for an organ transplant in Edmonton.
Second to none
The University of Alberta Hospital is home to the most comprehensive organ and tissue transplant program in Canada - providing gold standard care to more than seven million Canadians across Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. No other program offers the complete range of transplant procedures — heart, kidney, liver, lung, heart/lung, small bowel, pancreas, islet, eye and tissue.
Bringing HOPE
Critical to the success of the transplant program is having the ability to provide transplantable donor organs. The Human Organ Procurement and Exchange (HOPE) Program coordinates the donation, allocation, recovery and distribution of organs for transplantation. HOPE also provides vital patient services such as advocacy support for individuals considering organ donation and bereavement support for families of organ donors.
Comprehensive Tissue Centre
Complimenting the transplant and surgery programs is the Comprehensive Tissue Centre, one of only three full service multi-tissue banks in Canada that facilitate the recovery, storage, processing and distribution of human tissue from living and cadaveric donors for transplant support for individuals considering organ donation and bereavement support for families of organ donors.
Islet Transplants
The University of Alberta Hospital is home to the largest islet transplant program in the world, and the birthplace of the Edmonton Protocol, a revolutionary procedure for conducting islet transplants on patients with Type 1 diabetes.
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