Intra-abdominal Organ Transplantation

Intra-abdominal organ transplants can extend or improve the lives of people with certain types of liver, pancreas and kidney diseases.

If you need a transplant, put your trust in Loyola Medicine. Our breadth of services improves health and quality of life.

Doctors and patients from across the Midwest turn to us for our commitment to transplant excellence.

Why Choose Loyola for Transplant Surgery?

Loyola Medicine has been performing and pioneering organ transplant surgery since 1971. We performed one of the first heart, lung and liver transplants in Chicago.

With our long history of transplantation care in mind, Loyola's intra-abdominal transplant programs offer many reasons to choose us if you may be in need of a transplant:

• At Loyola, a wait listed patient's time to kidney transplant is one the shortest in the state of Illinois and faster than the national average.
• We deliver personalized and customized care that acknowledges and recognizes diversity.
• We are one of the only programs expertly skilled in the use of robotics for both donor and recipient transplantation.
• Our transplant center is a member of the largest national kidney transplant exchange program, which allows us to transplant patients who are highly sensitized or have an incompatible living donor much faster.
• In addition to excellent patient and graft survival results, Loyola has patient outcomes for liver and kidney transplants that are above the regional and national average.
• Our patients benefit from a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach in which dedicated nurses and coordinators are invested in providing personalized care to patients and their families.
• With one of the largest and most experienced hepatology practices in Illinois, our liver program provides complex management for all patients with liver disease at any stage. In addition, we have a multidisciplinary liver cancer program that provides state-of-the-art care to patients with liver tumors.

Our program’s decades of experience translate to the highest quality care. Our patients not only feel better, they thrive. And we can help you, too. Services are available in convenient locations in the Chicago metropolitan area and across Illinois.