Transplant Services
Banner Good Samaritan Transplant Services, Arizona’s most experienced transplant center, provides care to patients requiring a kidney, liver, pancreas or kidney/pancreas transplant. Patients referred into the Banner Good Samaritan Solid Organ Transplant Center, can take comfort that they are being cared for by skilled transplant surgeons and an interdisciplinary team dedicated to providing the best care available to patients requiring a transplant.
Banner Good Samaritan Transplant Center patients can rely on an integrated approach to their care and our pledge to help patients and their families before, during and after the transplant. This includes the highest standards of hospital and outpatient medical care, combined with a comprehensive network of support led by our transplant nursing coordinators and social workers.
An organ transplant is an exciting, positive event for patients who have suffered from organ failure. It is also an emotional time for both the patient and family and requires a firm commitment by the patient to fully participate in the transplant's success. It involves patience, hard work, and understanding. Our goal for all transplant patients is a successful outcome that restores an optimum level of health, resulting in a return to a productive life.
Transplant Services
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- Dana Jamison, MD |
"I wanted to still be a mom, surgeon, wife and community servant. My husband, Alex, gave me all of this through his love and the gift of one of his kidneys."Kidney Transplant – In 1969, Arizona's first organ transplant, a kidney transplant, was performed at Banner Good Samaritan. Having now performed more than 2,900 kidney transplants, we are one of the largest providers of kidney transplants in Arizona.
Kidneys for transplant come from two sources. Deceased donors are in iduals who have suffered brain death and their organs are donated to patients in need. A living donor transplant involves removing a kidney from a person who is alive and healthy.
In 1999, the Banner Good Samaritan program started using laparoscopy donor nephrectomy, a less-invasive technique for living kidney donation. This procedure usually results in the donor experiencing less post-operative pain and a shorter recovery time. This allows the donor to return to work and resume normal activities earlier than with the traditional surgery.
In 2007, the first Paired Exchange Kidney Living Donor Program for the state of Arizona was started at Banner Good Samaritan.
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- Eric Pratt |
Liver Transplant – The state's first liver transplant was performed at Banner Good Samaritan in 1983. Liver transplant is offered to adults with irreversible liver failure not responsive to other medical or surgical management.
Living donor donation is now an option in liver transplantation. In this procedure, half of the liver is taken from a healthy living donor and donated to a person waiting on the liver transplant list. In the months following the transplant, both the donor and the recipient end up with a full sized liver, because of the ability of the liver to grow back to normal size. Living donors need to be closely related to the recipient or very close friends.
Kidney-Pancreas and Pancreas Transplant – Banner Good Samaritan continues to be one of the leading providers of pancreas and simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplants in the Four Corners region. Patients with kidney failure as a result of Type I diabetes have benefited from this type of transplant. The goal of kidney-pancreas transplant is to correct the end stage kidney disease and prevent the long-term consequences of diabetes.
Should you have any more questions regarding Transplant Services at Banner Good Samaritan Transplant Services, please do not hesitate to contact our office, located in the Edwards Medical Plaza at 1300 N. 12th St., Suite 404, in Phoenix, across the street from Banner Good Samaritan. We can be reached by telephone at (602) 839-7000 or toll-free at 1 (800) 554-1923; by fax at (602) 839-7050; or by e-mail.
