Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplants

There for you before, during and after transplant surgery

Your journey to wellness will begin with a comprehensive evaluation before your transplant, performed at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans or in collaboration with your referring physician. Ochsner offers patients a one-day work-up with pre-transplant medical, psychosocial and financial consultations conveniently scheduled on the same day.

After the initial evaluation, recommendations regarding candidacy for transplantation are provided by a committee made up of a team representing many disciplines. Once approved, transplant candidates are then placed on a national register to wait for the availability of a cadaveric organ. If you have a living donor, your transplant may occur shortly after approval. After transplantation, we closely monitor all of our patients. Our commitment to you lasts long after you’re discharged from the hospital.

The Advantage of Having Your Transplant Surgery at Ochsner

• Kidney-pancreas transplant patients at Ochsner typically wait less than six months for a transplant. This is far less than the standard three years.
• Our survival rates are better than the national average.
• Our patients experience shorter hospital stays than national rates after their transplants.
• Ochsner is a Medicare-approved transplant program, and a Center of Excellence for many insurers.
• Ochsner is home to one of the nation’s largest combined Kidney-Pancreas transplant programs.
• The Ochsner transplant team participates in multi-center clinical trials and research. We’re always looking for new and better ways to improve outcomes and make transplants safer.

What Referring Physicians Need to Know

The Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute provides consistent follow-up information to all referring physicians via written correspondence. You’ll be kept abreast of initial clinic visits, surgery, hospital discharge and routine follow-up visits to the clinic. After surgery, our team continues to monitor for transplant-related complications and regulates maintenance immunosuppression.

To refer a patient for transplant, call our 24-hour Referral Hotline: 1-800-643-1635 or email referrals to: KidneyTransplant@Ochsner.org.