UI Health performed more kidney, kidney/pancreas and pancreas transplants in 2020 than any other major medical center in the Chicago metropolitan area. The hospital’s combined kidney/pancreas and pancreas transplant programs are the third-largest programs of their kind in the United States.
A kidney transplant is often denied to patients who are obese due to an increased risk of surgical complications, particularly infections. Surgeons at UI Heath — the clinical and academic health enterprise of the University of Illinois Chicago...
Surgeons at UI Health — the University of Illinois Chicago’s clinical and academic health enterprise — have performed the world’s first robotic-assisted double-kidney removal followed immediately by a living-donor kidney transplant in a patient with severe polycystic kidney disease...
Operating robotic scissors, University of Illinois Chicago Chancellor Michael Amiridis snipped a ribbon to officially open the University of Illinois College of Medicine Surgical Innovation & Training Laboratory, or SITL, on Sept. 15. ...
After many years on dialysis and on the transplant list to receive a donor kidney, Lana Schmidt had almost given up hope of surviving another year...