Northwestern Medicine performed its first kidney transplant procedure with the patient being awake.
ABC7 Chicago Digital TeamFor the first time at Northwestern Medicine , surgeons have performed a kidney transplant procedure where the patient was awake.A Chicago man was the first patient at Northwestern Medicine to receive a kidney transplant that he was awake for.
Nicholas turned to his childhood friend, Pat Wise, sharing that his doctors told him it was time to look for a donor. On May 24, Dr. Satish Nadig, a transplant surgeon at Northwestern Medicine; Dr. Vinayak Rohan, a transplant surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; and Dr. Vicente Garcia Tomas, an anesthesiologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, performed the procedure in under two hours.Doctor with cancer gets unprecedented liver, double-lung transplant from Northwestern Medicine
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