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March 3, 2023

Nurse coordinator looks back on 25 years with transplant center in Florida

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Tita Bordinger Herron has been with the transplant center in Florida from the start. She shares her thoughts on her role and how her career has grown along with the program over the last 25 years. Tita Bordinger Herron has been with the transplant center at Mayo Clinic in Florida for 25 years. When it began […]

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Tags: Mayo Clinic in Florida, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


January 13, 2023

Leaning on her team, patient comes out stronger after double-lung transplant

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A year ago, Tiffany Eyrich had complications from COVID and lost a baby she never got to meet. She wasn’t sure she’d see another holiday season. But thanks to her Mayo Clinic care team, she again was able to embrace the most wonderful time of the year. After spending Christmas 2021 fighting for her life, […]

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Tags: ECMO, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center, Tiffany Eyrich, transplant


June 7, 2022

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

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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


January 19, 2022

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

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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 14, 2022

A shared heart: Two families come together after tragedy, transplant

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Before July 2017, Carson Gigstad’s family had no connection to Amanda Hansen’s family. Today, the families share a bond that grew out of tragedy and turned into hope. Around the 15th of every month, Christin Gigstad and Tina Haug think of each other. They pick up their phones and text. Even if they’ve already talked […]

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Tags: Dr. John Stulak, heart transplant, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


January 10, 2022

Kidney donation ‘a gift from one grandparent to another’

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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


November 18, 2021

Happy Transplantversary: Celebrating 25 years with a new heart, back where it all happened

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It was a special day for the Ryans: the 25th anniversary of Jay’s heart transplant. It’s an anniversary the family usually marks privately. But this year, the significance of the milestone demanded something more. Jay Ryan had a hunch something was up when his wife, Sarah, asked him to step things up in the shirt […]

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Tags: Dr. Brooks Edwards, Dr. Richard Daly, Dr. Thomas Habermann, heart transplant, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center, Paul Olsen-Holtorf


October 1, 2019

News Story Prompts Jan Germundson to Donate Kidney to Young Boy

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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


August 20, 2019

Heart Transplant Recipient Driven to Make a Difference, Now Needs Second Transplant

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Elizabeth Sammons received a heart transplant at Mayo Clinic in 2015 and used her second chance at life to give back, crocheting hundreds of scarves for homeless Minnesotans.

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Tags: heart transplant, Kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


August 20, 2019

A Tale of Two Dr. Chuck Rosens

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Charles Rosen, M.D., is more than happy to share his name with another Dr. Rosen: a basset hound who was named after the Mayo Clinic transplant surgeon.

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Tags: Dr. Charles Rosen, LifeSource, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


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