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June 7, 2022

Brothers mark 40th transplant anniversary, thank the staff who made it possible

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

Forty years ago, Pete Suby learned he needed a kidney transplant. His younger brother, Tim, was a perfect match. The brothers recently returned to Mayo Clinic to mark the 40th anniversary of the transplant and thank the staff who made the milestone and others like it possible. Pete Suby thought he had the flu. He’d […]

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Tags: Dr. Sylvester Sterioff, Kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


February 17, 2022

Gabriel Ryan wasn’t supposed to live. Today, he is thriving

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

Gabriel Ryan wasn’t supposed to live. The Goodhue, Minnesota, toddler was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease before birth. The disorder is usually fatal. But young Gabriel has defied the odds. Eric and Micayla Ryan were experienced parents. They had three children already and thought this ultrasound would be as routine as the ones that had […]

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Tags: Dr. Mikel Prieto, Kidney transplant, maternal fetal medicine, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital, NICU


January 19, 2022

Dr. Brian Hardaway is a transplant trifecta: Transplant physician, donor, recipient

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

Transplant medicine got a hold on Brian Hardaway, M.D., early, through his own experience and observing others who received that gift. As a physician, organ donor and a recipient, he knows the effect transplants can have on patients and everyone around them. The young doctor watched with fascination as the transplant cardiologists he was shadowing […]

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Tags: Dr. Brian Hardaway, Kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


January 10, 2022

Kidney donation ‘a gift from one grandparent to another’

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

In the 1990s, Bethany Krom and Karen Nick both worked at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. When Bethany moved to Minnesota, the two kept in touch via Facebook. Twenty years later, that Facebook friendship would lead Bethany to give a lifechanging gift to Karen’s husband, John. Bethany Krom had never met John Nick. But she knew […]

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Tags: Kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


January 6, 2022

Hospital proposal receives standing ovation from family and Mayo Clinic staff

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

Jake Bieze’s girlfriend walked beside him as he made the decision to donate a kidney to his father. Before leaving Mayo Clinic after the surgery, Jake asked her to take another walk with him — this one down the aisle. Jake Bieze had just one more thing to do before he left Mayo Clinic Hospital […]

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Tags: Kidney transplant, Meagan Davis


March 5, 2020

Mayo Transplant Patient Travels to South Korea to Help Spread the Magic of Organ Donation

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

Many countries outside the U.S. don’t allow organ recipients and donor families to meet, but a Mayo patient’s trip to South Korea may help change that country’s views on such meetings.

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Tags: Bev Hansen, dialysis, Kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Pancreas transplant, Type 1 diabetes


March 3, 2020

Living Donor Kidney Donations Connect Three Women

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

Abby Rossow was just 21 when she learned she would need a kidney transplant. A friend was willing to donate but wasn’t a perfect match for Abby, so the two were placed on Mayo’s paired donation list.

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Tags: dialysis, Dr. Andrew Bentall, Kidney transplant, Living Donor Transplant, Paired Kidney Donation Program


December 10, 2019

Dave Thouin’s Quest to Find a Living Kidney Donor Pays Off

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

Dave Thouin and his wife, Carol, worked hard to get the word out that Dave needed a kidney. Julie Mlinar saw one of the ads that eventually led her Mayo Clinic to see if she was a match.

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Tags: Kidney transplant, Living Donor Transplant, Mayo Clinic in Rochester


November 21, 2019

Doctor and Patient Share Special Connection — and Big Macs

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

Medical problems led to more than a year of living on liquid nutrition through a tube for D’Ann Mitchell. After her recovery, her doctor made good on a promise to treat her to lunch.

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Tags: Dr. Geoffrey Thompson, Kidney transplant, liquid nutrition, paragangliomas, Scoliosis


October 1, 2019

News Story Prompts Jan Germundson to Donate Kidney to Young Boy

By In the Loop In the Loop (@intheloop)

A newspaper story about 12-year-old Ashton Hanson and his need for a kidney caught the eye of Jan Germundson, who then stepped in to give Ashton the gift of life.

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Tags: Dr. Mikel Prieto, Kidney transplant, Living Donor Transplant, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


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