Donate Life Month is a time to honor organ donors, transplant recipients, their support team and the clinical staffers who make it all possible. Here’s… Read more
Tag: organ donor
Ohio native reflects on becoming an altruistic living-liver donor
“What made you want to donate?” This is a question I was frequently asked before, during and after my living-donor liver transplant surgery. I often… Read more
Christmas Comes Early for Liver Transplant Patient and Her Donor Son
In January 2018, Monet Buechel, 69, of Upper St. Clair, went to a local hospital for a routine medical procedure. Once the anesthesia wore off,… Read more
Woman Celebrates 30 Years Post-Heart and Double-Lung Transplant
Terri DeChellis was diagnosed with primary pulmonary hypertension, a type of high blood pressure that affects arteries in the heart and lungs when she was… Read more
ISMETT Governance Change Marks Milestone in Italy
In a change that is expected to accelerate the translation of medical research into better patient care, UPMC-managed ISMETT now counts the Ri.MED Foundation as… Read more