Florida Lung Transplant Center

SRTR Survival Stats – July 2011

Juliann Whitebread — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:36:52 +0000

The information on this form will give you a snapshot of how our patients do after undergoing lung transplant at Shands Transplant Center at the University of Florida.

Dedication transforms Habitat house into home

Juliann Whitebread — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:38:56 +0000

The house on Elder Street had a roof and walls and freshly planted sod. But it wasn’t until Sunday afternoon that it became a home. Jack and Kathy Kemper, along with a crowd of family members, friends and Habitat for Humanity volunteers, made the transformation with a brief ceremony and a lot of love. “What a fantastic group of people we have here today,” said Lindsay Elliott-Hunt, executive director of the Flagler Habitat for Humanity. “Every family is special and every family has an incredible story.” The Kempers’ story, however, might be a little more special than normal.

Life-a-Palooza

Juliann Whitebread — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:25:17 +0000

Kick-off Donate Life Month with Life-a-Palooza, Thursday, April 7 from 8-10pm at the Orange and Blue outside the Reitz Union on the UF campus. The event will include live performances from local bands, free food, raffle prizes and guest speakers who have been affected by organ and tissue donation.

Repurposed transplant drug gives hope to women with fatal lung disease

Juliann Whitebread — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:03:47 +0000

A drug typically used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients has been shown to reverse the progress of an often fatal lung disease in women, according to findings published March 16 in the online edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.

The discovery marks the first effective therapy scientists have ever found for the lung disease known as lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM, a rare condition in women often discovered during pregnancy, said Dr. Mark Brantly, a University of Florida professor of medicine and one of the co-authors of the paper.

Longwood Rehab Charity Golf Tournament

Juliann Whitebread — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:21:53 +0000

Benefitting Shands at UF Transplant Long-Term Patient Housing Program

Saturday, April 14, 20. 8:30 a.m. Shotgun Start. Zellwood Station
4 Person Team Scramble
7:15 – 8 am check-in and putting contest
$80 golfer EARLY registration by March 31, 2012
$90 golfer registration after March 31
Green fees, cart, range balls and lunch included in registration
Prizes awareded to low gross teams, closest to the pin, longest drive, straightest drive, and putting contest winner
Silent and live auction
Business sponsorships available
For more information, visit www.shandsgiving.org or call UF&Shands Office of Development at (352) 265-7237
Make checks payable to: Shands HealthCare PO Box 100386, Gainesville, FL. 32610-0386

Orlando man receives Shands’ 500th lung translant

Juliann Whitebread — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:00:54 +0000

Shands at the University of Florida recently celebrated a new milestone and gave a patient a fresh lease on life in time for the new year. Orlando resident Bhowani Sharma received a new lung, marking the hospital’s 500th lung transplant since 1994.

Orlando man gets Shands’ 500th lung transplant

Juliann Whitebread — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:54:20 +0000

Bhowani Sharma, 68, took the old saying “out with the old, in with the new” to heart as he brought in the new year.

The Orlando resident received a new lung at Shands at the University of Florida.

His surgery marked the hospital’s 500th lung transplant since 1994.

Sharma’s lung transplant was the 29th and last of 2010 for the Shands UF transplant team.

Now, just days into 2011, he’s preparing to go home.

Beginning to breathe: Jen Likness gets new lungs just in time

Juliann Whitebread — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:50:50 +0000

After 28 years of living with cystic fibrosis, Jennifer Likness’s lungs stopped working.

For three days, a machine pumped oxygenated blood through her body, keeping her alive. Late in the evening of the third day, when doctors say risk of complications start to shoot up, she finally received a set of donated lungs. Without them, she would have died.

Nation’s Top Hospital Organ Transplant Centers Identified by HealthGrades

Carlos Morales — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:03:12 +0000

HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent ratings organization, today made available to organ transplant patients a list of those hospitals with the best track record for survival and chances of receiving a donor organ. HealthGrades annual evaluation of the nation’s top-performing hospitals in organ transplantation includes clinical quality data, based on patient outcomes, for each of the 210 adult acute care hospitals that perform transplants.

Grant breathes life into lung transplant center

Carlos Morales — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:07:41 +0000

Eight years ago, he sat in his living room, tethered to oxygen, his lungs rapidly deteriorating from pulmonary fibrosis. If Tom Telford had not become Patient No. 199, he probably would have gone on this way, unable to breathe, until he died