transplants

In October 2016, Jonathan Koch, a 51-year-old entertainment executive from Los Angeles, underwent a 17-hour procedure to replace the hand he lost to a mysterious, life-threatening illness.

Denice Lombard and her father, Ted, made history in 1967 and now they’re urging others to become organ donors.

The thoracic transplant program also ranks among the country’s best in terms of patient survival rates, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.

Blood donors representing many ethnicities and backgrounds pool precious resource to save woman’s life.

A young woman gets life-saving transplant when a UCLA medical team agrees to take her high-risk case when other transplant centers would not.

Running 13.1 miles may seem like a daunting task to many people. But for heart transplant recipient Tony Flores, it was pure joy to finish the Revel Canyon City Half Marathon in Azusa on Nov. 12.

The UCLA program has become the first program on the West Coast, and one of only seven centers nationwide, to achieve this milestone.

The Heal My HeART program provides patients with a creative outlet that allows them to express their feelings and help them regain physical and emotional health with a new sense of optimism.

Dr. Jeffrey Veale writes that a program pioneered at UCLA could encourage more donations and reduce the number of deaths of those waiting for transplants.

The milestone is a national record and it highlights the growth of the 32-year-old transplant program.

An innovative organ donation program initiated at UCLA is now being adopted by other medical centers across the United States.

The new technique can accurately identify a person’s optimal drug and dose combinations throughout an entire course of treatment, without complex, time-consuming genetic analysis.

Patients of UCLA’s kidney transplant program — already the best of the nation’s largest programs in terms of survival rates — will find comfort and convenience in a state-of-the-art new home thanks to the generosity of philanthropist Connie Frank.

Twenty-five years ago, an Orange County woman received the first lung transplant performed at UCLA Medical Center.

The doctors developed a predictive “calculator” called a nomogram after analyzing 30 years’ worth of data from liver transplants for people with liver cancer.

Born with a heart defect that couldn’t be fixed with surgery, a baby receives a heart transplant at 23 days old. Five-week-old Dravyn Johnson left Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA for home today with his mother.

Mike Boyle has good reason to give his wife and family extra hugs on Valentine’s Day

About 100 kidney transplant recipients and their donors — all participants in various living donor transplant "chains" — reunited today at Reagan UCLA Medical Center for a holiday celebration of giving and receiving the gift of life. The...