Offering expert care for patients with kidney failure
Kidney failure patients face two choices: Live with dialysis or get a kidney transplant. The ideal situation is for patients to avoid dialysis and consider kidney transplant first, which requires a living donor.
The Baylor Scott & White kidney transplant programs combined have performed nearly 7,000 kidney transplants. Every year, 350 kidney patients or more receive the life-saving gift of organ donation and transplant at Centro médico de la Universidad Baylor, part of Baylor Scot & White Health, Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center—Fort Worth and Baylor Scott & White Medical Center—Temple.
Kidney transplant in North Texas: Expert care for more than 30 years
Our kidney transplant program at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas has more than three decades of experience and offers complete services to care for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs.
We’ve invested in technology like robotic surgery to improve care and perform living donor kidney transplants to minimize the time spent waiting for a new kidney. If you have a potential living kidney donor, we can also check compatibility with others across our network to match the right living donors with the right recipients.
Watch an overview video about our kidney transplant program in North Texas
What makes Baylor Scott & White different for kidney patients?
Living kidney donor transplant
Patients with living donor kidney transplants live longer, recover more quickly and have a better quality of life. The fastest way to receive a kidney transplant is for a family member, friend, co-worker, or altruistic donor to step forward. These donors don’t have to be related or have the same blood type or be of the same race or gender. They simply need to be healthy and willing. Most donors are between the ages of 18 and 65. (Donors older than 65 are considered on a case-by basis.)
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Recipient-donor match opportunities
Our large pool of patients and donors provide increased options for living kidney transplant candidates. We assess potential living kidney donors across all of the Baylor Scott & White transplant locations. This allows us to check compatibility with not only a specific recipient, but with multiple living donor transplant candidates. Our goal in doing this is to get the right living donor to the right recipient.
Robotic techniques
We utilize the newest technology and advanced robotic techniques that make surgery and recovery easier and faster for our donors and recipients.
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Convenient care sites close to you
Baylor Scott & White’s three transplant locations in Dallas, fort worth and Templo and the additional kidney transplant satellite clinics in Amarillo, Lubbock and Longview make kidney transplant accessible for more patients.
Baylor Scott & White Pathway to Kidney Transplant
Baylor Scott & White Health is ready to walk with you through the transplant journey and help you make the best decisions for you and your family. We provide a guide to kidney transplant that includes a checklist for patients with kidney disease and potential donors that explains the necessary steps to receive a kidney transplant as soon as possible.
Trasplante combinado de riñón y páncreas
Se realizan trasplantes simultáneos de riñón y páncreas para pacientes con diabetes tipo 1 o tipo 2 que califican. El trasplante dual funciona mejor que un riñón solo porque el nuevo páncreas protege al riñón trasplantado de los efectos dañinos de la diabetes. Como resultado, el nuevo riñón funciona mejor y durante más tiempo en el receptor del trasplante de riñón / páncreas.
Muchos receptores de trasplantes de riñón / páncreas están libres de diabetes años después del trasplante y reportan una mejor calidad de vida que los pacientes que solo tienen riñón.
Transplante de riñón donante vivo
Donar un riñón a un amigo, familiar u otra persona es una gran decisión. Nos esforzamos por proporcionar una excelente experiencia de donantes y atención personalizada a todos los donantes. El equipo dedicado de donantes vivos en Baylor Scott & White Health está disponible para responder a todas sus preguntas y guiarlo a través del proceso.
Potential donors may accompany recipients during kidney transplant orientation.
Empezar:
- ENVIAR CUESTIONARIO - Complete our online confidential health history questionnaire for the location where the kidney recipient is being seen.
- Donor review - Your donor information will be reviewed by a living donor coordinator.
- Donor interview - If you are a possible donor, a coordinator will contact you to review the questionnaire and answer any additional questions.