![]() But in a robotic surgery, the surgeon sits at a console and uses joysticks to control four robotic arms that contain a camera that gives a 3D view and tools to perform the surgery. In a traditional surgery, the surgeon stands over the patient to operate. Donor safety and comfort is always my number one priority.” Nurse Krystle Lee, middle, moves the daVinci Robotic arm into place as surgeon Teresa Rice, second from left, waits to set it up for a kidney transplant operation. The combination of robotic surgery and our enhanced recovery pathways allows for a quicker and safer recovery. More importantly, it’s a safer operation for our living donors. They have a reduced hospital stay over 90% of our patients are now going home the day after surgery. It has a lot of benefits to our living donors. “I’m doing them all robotically now and making that our standard of care. “We’ve grown our program pretty rapidly in terms of robotics,” Rice said. This program has not only helped doctors to be quicker and less invasive in their surgeries, it’s also improved recovery time for donors. MUSC performed its first robotic kidney transplant surgery in 2021, and by the end of this chain, Rice had completed the 60 th. Teresa “Tracy” Rice, M.D., piloted a program to bring robotics into kidney transplantation. “Thanks to generous people who help people that they don’t even know.” The robotic donation process I want to live for a long time and take care of them as much as I can,” he said. “I have a son and a daughter, so I’ve got a lot of reasons to keep living. Thanks to the generosity of four altruistic donors who stepped forward – especially John Kronz – he got one. A few weeks prior, he was on a waiting list for a new kidney. That left Carlos Zavala-Tellez, a man who didn’t have a previous connection to anyone in the room. And, as remarkable, her father was able to donate his kidney to Bonnie Fanning. And though Cristi Maw wasn’t a match for Maggie Dean, she was indeed a match for new mom Cameron Coleman, who after four months of waiting, got her new kidney. As it turned out, the stranger that Cassandra Bilyeu would donate a kidney to was Maggie Dean. Her father, Mike Riley, signed up to donate his kidney to help her, but, as fate would have it, they also weren’t a match.īut there was good news. She went on dialysis six days a week while she was pregnant, and after delivery, she went every day. “He said, ‘I’d like to donate you a kidney’ and I was like, ‘Yes! That would be wonderful.’” But the pair would also need a chain for a successful transplant, since they also were not a match.Ĭameron Coleman was 15 weeks pregnant when she received the diagnosis that her kidneys were failing. ![]() “He hadn’t been in the church very long,” she said. Two years after watching his grandmother die of kidney failure, he felt compelled to help when one of his parishioners, Bonnie Fanning, mentioned that she needed a transplant. John Kronz is a 32-year-old minister in the small town of Norway, South Carolina. John Kronz prepares to donate his kidney to Carlos Zavala-Tellez. Even though Maw wasn’t a match for Dean, the possibility of a chain gave them both hope. “I just thought, ‘I want to help her,’” she said. When she saw Maggie Dean’s post about needing a kidney. After she supported a coworker through the donation process, she felt called to do the same. Thankfully, the person she signed up to donate to had already found a donor, but Bilyeu decided to follow through with a donation anyway, even if it were to go to a stranger.Ĭristi Maw was also moved to donate a kidney from a Facebook post. “So I signed up and registered to be a kidney donor. This person needed a kidney transplant, and therefore a donor. Two years ago, Cassandra Bilyeu was browsing Facebook when she saw a post from a friend of a friend. Most of these people were complete strangers to one another, but today was the day they would each come face to face with someone who they shared not only a special bond with but who they’d forever share a part of. Some wore hospital gowns, others, street clothes. The story behind the chainĪfter three long, consecutive days of surgeries – four to remove kidneys, four to implant them – eight people made their way into a small room in MUSC’s main hospital. The donation of a “Good Samaritan,” or someone with no connection to the donor, lit the spark for an eight-person exchange that helped four people suffering from kidney failure. Thanks to the generosity of four people, four more received new kidneys and with that, new lives.
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