The expert guide to organ transplant

Ohio State health care teams have been providing organ transplants since 1967. Here, they help explain how organ transplantation works and what we’re doing at Ohio State to make this lifesaving procedure even safer and more accessible.

The joy of sharing it forward

Health and Society

How Ohio State celebrates organ transplants as ‘Buckeyes for Life’

By Susannah Kistler

Ohio State’s 16th annual Buckeye Pinwheel Planting and Transplant Reunion touches hearts with a record-breaking celebration of the lifesaving gift of organ donation and transplantation.

General Health

Kidney donation chain saves five lives at once

By Joshua Wright

A complex procedure brought together 10 people to make crucial kidney transplants possible.

General Health

Former firefighter’s active life restored by heart transplant

By Joshua Wright

A complicated, painful battle with heart disease has a happy ending.

General Health

Getting the call: What happens when an organ becomes available for transplant

By Joshua Wright

Sarah’s call that her new lungs were ready for transplant came at a desperate time. Learn what it’s like for both patients and medical center staff when an organ becomes ready for transplant.

General Health

Liver transplant recipient gets second and third chance at life

By Hannah Griffith

Military veteran receives second and third chance at life with liver donation.

Heart and Vascular

16 and healthy one minute, in dire need of a heart transplant the next

February 25, 2022

Healthy, athletic and only 16 years old, Ohio native Gigi was the last person you’d think would need a heart transplant. Until she collapsed at a family gathering, and a race against time began to save her life.

General Health

‘Let’s do this.’ Lifesaving kidney transplant strengthens bond between brothers

By Serena Smith

When kidney failure put Steve Robison on a years-long wait for an organ donation, his brother Mike stepped up to give him his life back through living kidney donation.

General Health

How to ask for living kidney donation

By Austin Schenk, MD, PhD

For those in need of a new kidney, living kidney donation is the best and fastest option. We break down how to approach finding a living donor.

General Health

Mother and son donate kidneys to ailing husband and father, 21 years apart

By Wendy Pramik

Ohio state kidney transplant patient Jonathan Schriber receives the gift of life twice as his wife and son act as living kidney donors for him, 21 years apart.

Treatment Advances

Everything you need to know about living kidney and living liver donation

By Kenneth Washburn, MD

Learn the facts about living organ donation and how this growing option is saving lives by making more organs available for those in need of liver or kidney transplant.

General Health

What is tissue typing for organ transplant?

April 24, 2024

Learn how this process is vital to ensuring successful organ transplants.

General Health

Do transplanted organs last a lifetime?

By Alejandro Diez, MD

The life of a transplanted organ varies by type, but there are ways you can help extend its longevity, too.

Innovation and Research: Expanding donor pools

Treatment Advances

With thousands awaiting organ transplants, Ohio State surgeon is expanding organ availability to save more lives

By Beth Harvilla

Ohio State’s transplant program is one of the busiest in the country. But the program’s leader, Kenneth Washburn, MD, isn’t done yet. He’s pushing for more innovation and living donation.

General Health

Making more organs available for lung transplants

By Wendy Margolin

A transplant surgeon at Ohio State turns to the research lab to find innovative ways to make more organs suitable for donation.

Heart and Vascular

Bringing advanced approaches to improve the lives of cardiac surgery patients

By Joshua Wright

Nahush Mokadam, MD, is advancing the field of cardiac surgery at Ohio State.

Treatment Advances

Saving and caring for more hearts

By Amy Colgan, Mary Ellen Fiorino

Heart surgeons at Ohio State were the first to use this new organ monitoring system that is giving surgeons more access to donor hearts. Learn more about this novel technology being tested in a clinical trial at the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital.

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Organ transplantation at Ohio State saves lives

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The expert guide to organ transplant

Ohio State health care teams have been providing organ transplants since 1967. Here, they help explain how organ transplantation works and what we’re doing at Ohio State to make this lifesaving procedure even safer and more accessible.

The joy of sharing it forward

How Ohio State celebrates organ transplants as ‘Buckeyes for Life’

Kidney donation chain saves five lives at once

Former firefighter’s active life restored by heart transplant

Getting the call: What happens when an organ becomes available for transplant

Liver transplant recipient gets second and third chance at life

16 and healthy one minute, in dire need of a heart transplant the next

Facts about living donation

‘Let’s do this.’ Lifesaving kidney transplant strengthens bond between brothers

How to ask for living kidney donation

Mother and son donate kidneys to ailing husband and father, 21 years apart

Everything you need to know about living kidney and living liver donation

What is tissue typing for organ transplant?

Do transplanted organs last a lifetime?

Innovation and Research: Expanding donor pools

With thousands awaiting organ transplants, Ohio State surgeon is expanding organ availability to save more lives

Making more organs available for lung transplants

Bringing advanced approaches to improve the lives of cardiac surgery patients

Saving and caring for more hearts

Organ transplantation at Ohio State saves lives

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