In the Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease Clinic at C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital, our goal is to slow down or stop the kidney damage, utilizing a multidisciplinary team of specialists to provide comprehensive and compassionate care, along with access to the latest treatments and clinical trials.
In the Pediatric Dialysis Program at C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital, our multidisciplinary team of physicians and nurses are specially trained to provide comprehensive and compassionate family-centered care for children from newborn to college age with acute and chronic kidney failure who require dialysis therapies.
The Pediatric Hypertension Program at C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital has multidisciplinary physician expertise to provide a unique comprehensive approach to the evaluation and management of infants, children and adolescents with high blood pressure, offering advanced diagnostic methods, and experience with the latest antihypertensive drug therapies.
The University of Michigan Transplant Center is the largest and most experienced transplant center in Michigan, and among the largest in the nation, with outcomes for kidney and pancreas transplant in compliance with the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients – our patient survival rate at one year is 98%, kidney transplant survival for one year is 95%, and pancreas graph survival for one year is 85%-90% – and we offer services that are not offered widely, including a Paired Kidney Donation Program (only one in the state, utilizing U-M computer software to match kidneys to hard-to-match recipients).
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The University of Michigan Transplant Center is the largest and most experienced transplant center in Michigan, and among the largest in the nation, with outcomes for kidney and pancreas transplant in compliance with the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients – our patient survival rate at one year is 98%, kidney transplant survival for one year is 95%, and pancreas graph survival for one year is 85%-90% – and we offer services that are not offered widely, including a Paired Kidney Donation Program (only one in the state, utilizing U-M computer software to match kidneys to hard-to-match recipients) and desensitization (for people with too many antibodies or whose blood type doesn’t match an available donor).
The University of Michigan Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program is the most experienced program within the state of Michigan, with particular expertise in the transplantation of children under the age of 2, performing more than 500 kidney transplants since the program's beginning in1964, and reporting organ rejection and patient survival rates that rank among the world's best.
If you are waiting for a kidney, having a live donor can decrease your waiting time for a kidney transplant. Your parents, children, siblings, other relatives, in-laws, and close friends can all be considered for living kidney donation. Some people do not have a designated recipient and end up donating a kidney to someone they do not know. A University of Michigan-developed software program works to match an incompatible recipient/donor pair with other pairs in the same situation, offering new hope to those needing kidney transplants.
The Vascular Surgery department, at the University of Michigan Health System, operates on 80 percent of patients, including children, in the United States with renal artery disease more than anywhere else in the world.
