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Loyola wraps up longest kidney chain in history

Loyola’s Pay-It-Forward Kidney Transplant Program recently played a key role in the longest living-donor kidney transplant chain in the U.S.  Loyola was the only Illinois medical center of 17 hospitals involved. The chain, which linked 30 donors with 30 recipients across the nation, turned around the lives of two Loyola patients. The last recipient, Joliet resident Don Terry, said, “This kidney chain has brought me back to life,” Terry said.

Loyola Medical News' online version a real page-turner

Loyola Medical News, which is mailed to nearly 40,000 referring physicians in Illinois and surrounding states, will now be available in an online magazine. This version will allow readers to turn pages, much as they would a magazine printed on paper. They will also be able to search the archives for stories and e-mail articles of interest to friends and family. This will save trees and cut down on delivery times. The publication details innovations in clinical care, advanced technology, clinical trials, new appointments, research publications and honors and awards involving Loyola physicians.

Stopping a Heart Attack in its Tracks

National guidelines say patients undergoing heart attacks should receive balloon angioplasties as soon as possible or within 90 minutes of arriving at the hospital -- known as the "door-to-balloon time" time. In the first year since launching its Heart Attack Rapid Response Team, Loyola has far exceeded that standard, with a median door-to-balloon time of just 41 minutes. All patients have received balloon angioplasties within 90 minutes, and 88 percent within 60 minutes. The fastest procedure was done in just 22 minutes. Most hospitals do not have teams on site during nights and weekends. Loyola is the only hospital in Illinois to have an interventional cardiologist is on site 24 hours a day.