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[Pioneer Press, Dec. 19, 2010] The ultimate cure for heart failure is a new heart. And in Minnesota, the sleepiest of the state’s three heart transplant centers is making a big investment to get back in the game. Last year, Abbott Northwestern performed two heart transplants. But through the first nine months of this year, [...]

[St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 24, 2010] Bring together five kidney donors and their organ recipients for the first time, and you can expect to hear plenty of people giving thanks. But the banter can be pretty good, too. As Matthew Kleve, 36, of South St. Paul talked Tuesday about how much more energy he [...]

[WCCO-TV, Oct. 13, 2010] Anna Linck’s life was renewed Easter morning when the 24-year-old graduate student she was given a donor heart. Just in time says her cardiologist. “At the time her (donor) heart became available, she probably had less than 48 hours to live,” said David Feldman MD, with the Minneapolis Heart Institute. During [...]

[Star Tribune & KARE11, Sept. 19, 2010] The first American to have a heart transplant in India lives right here in the Twin Cities. While Ron Lemmer of Prior Lake doesn’t regret having the surgery overseas, health officials worry about safety. Dr. Nader Moazami, Surgical Director of Heart Transplant at the Minneapolis Heart Institute, where [...]

[KARE-TV, July 23, 2010] One kidney donation, 10 surgeries and five healthier people. That was the result when an anonymous donor gave a kidney, starting a chain that helped five patients get transplants. In this case, the donor at Fairview helped someone in Fargo, whose partner helped someone at Abbott Northwestern, who in turn helped [...]

[Pioneer Press, July 23, 2010] Hospitals in the Twin Cities and Fargo, N.D., reported Thursday an unusual series of five kidney transplant surgeries that shows just how far doctors are going to stretch the limited supply of organ donors. The so-called “kidney chain” got started this month with an altruistic donor in Minneapolis who donated [...]

[Star Tribune, July 22, 2010] An anonymous kidney donor last week launched a chain of 10 surgeries and five transplants at three hospitals in Minnesota and North Dakota. Though such exchanges have occurred in other states, this is the first time that such a complex kidney swap took place in Minnesota, long a leader in [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, July 21, 2010] Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating after doctors installed a mechanical heart pump that supplements the amount of blood being pumped through the body. The device is being given to a growing number of people with heart failure so severe that they would most likely die without it. [...]

[ABC Newspapers, Coon Rapids, Minn., July 14, 2010] They say you can choose your friends but not your family. Well, after a June 14 swap of a medical sort, a pair of District 11 school teachers have family ties – not to mention surgical scars – that bind. You see, Roosevelt Middle School art teacher [...]