UW Health transplant patient resources

Clinical education for transplant patients

• Transplant health facts

Videos

As a service to patients we offer the following educational videos, which discuss important facets of the liver, kidney and pancreas transplant process, as well as left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation.

Pre-transplant

Post-transplant

Living donors

Ventricular Assist Devices

Transplant community learning sessions

Our continuing education sessions help transplant patients, living donors and their families and friends stay up-to-date on important information. Many of these sessions include both an in-person presentation and online opportunity to expand your knowledge and stay connected to this ever-changing field of medicine.

If you would like to be notified of upcoming sessions, email your request to transplant@uwhealth.org

• Transplant Research Update

• The Impact of COVID-19 on the UW Health Transplant Center

• Novel Approaches for Expanding Living Kidney Donation

• Keeping Livers Warm: An Update of the OrganOx Clinical Trial and Insights from Dr. Mezrich’s book When Death Becomes Life

• Approaching the Day when Antirejection Medications May Be Unnecessary and One Kidney for Life: Is it Possible?

• Learn about renal autotransplant and new discoveries in hepatitis C

Multiple listing

Multiple listing involves registering on the waitlist at two or more transplant centers. It is important for patients to understand their options regarding multiple listing for transplant, and the benefits of being listed at the UW Health Transplant Center.

• Learn more about multiple listing 

Record sheets

• Heart transplant vital signs record sheet (3 times/day) (pdf)

• Heart transplant vital signs record sheet (2 times/day) (pdf)

• Kidney transplant lab record sheet (pdf)

• Kidney/pancreas transplant lab record sheet (pdf)

• Liver transplant lab record sheet (pdf) 

• Lung transplant spirometry record sheet (pdf)

• Medication checklist (all programs) (pdf)

• Vital signs record sheet (pdf)

Patient housing in Madison

• Restoring Hope Transplant House

• UW Health Services at The InnTowner

• Ronald McDonald House

Other resources for post-transplant patients

• Celebrate your organ anniversary

• Writing your donor family

• Share your transplant experience

• Transplant mentor program

Resources for living donation

The UW Health Transplant Center is one of the nation’s largest living donation centers. Learn more about living donation:

• Living kidney donor program

• Living liver donor program

Transplant surgery anatomy drawings

• Heart transplant

• Kidney transplant

  • Living kidney donor surgery

  • Living kidney donation recipient surgery

• Liver transplant

  • How living liver donation works (jpg)

• Lung transplant (single)

• Lung transplant (double)

• LVAD implantation

• Pancreas transplant

• Pancreas and kidney transplant

• Renal autotransplant

• Total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplant (surgery) (jpg)

• Total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplant (islet recovery) (jpg)