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The UCSF Connie Frank Transplant Center cares for patients before and after kidney and pancreas transplants. We transplant kidneys from deceased (cadaver) donors as well as living donors. We also offer specialized procedures, such as weight-loss bariatric surgery for overweight patients to quality for transplant, dialysis access surgery, and pancreatic islet transplants for patients with diabetes.

Established in 1964, our program serves as a major transplant center for the West. Our kidney team evaluates over 1,000 patients a year as potential transplant candidates and performs more than 325 transplants a year. In 2015, we performed more kidney and combined kidney-pancreas transplants than any other program in the U.S., according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network.

For information about UCSF's post-transplant outcomes, please visit The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

Watch our video! To see how our doctors work with patients as a team to manage their long-term care after a transplant, click anywhere on the image below:

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UCSF Kidney Transplant Service

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Post-Operative Kidney Transplant Care

COVID-19 and transplant patients

UCSF strongly encourages patients awaiting kidney and pancreas transplants to get vaccinated. We also recommend that patients awaiting organ transplants follow the guidelines for immunocompromised patients from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Kidney donation

Becoming a living donor

The gift of an organ offers someone another chance at life. Find out more about the surgery, who is eligible and how to take the first step.

Contact us

If you have questions or would like more information, please send us an email at living.donor@ucsf.edu.

Explore what we do

A daughter gives her dad a life-saving gift

When Candase donated a kidney to her father, Ken, who was in kidney failure, a UCSF transplant team ensured the procedure was a success.

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    US National OCS Liver Perfusion (OLP) Registry

    Recipients' patient and graft survival rates will be the primary clinical outcomes measures for all OCS Liver transplanted recipients compared to recipients receiving liver transplants using non-OCS preservation methods (cold stat...

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    Kidney Transplantation From Donors With HIV: Impact on Rejection and Long-Term Outcomes (Expand...

    Proportion of participants who die or have graft rejection

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    Expanding Liver Transplant Immunosuppression Minimization Via Everolimus

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    Daratumumab and Belatacept for Desensitization

    Proportion of subjects who have not met a subject stopping rule, and remain free of all of the following through 26 weeks after starting treatment or until receiving a transplant, whichever occurs earlier: 1. Grade 3 or higher ...

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    KIDney Injury in Times of COVID-19 (KIDCOV)

    The 12-month continuous, quantitative Kidney Injury Test (KIT) score, measured on a scale of 0-100, where a higher urine-based KIT score correlates to worse kidney injury.

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    Pancreatic Islets and Parathyroid Gland Co-transplantation for Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes

    Safety: Since this study is a pilot non-randomized safety and efficacy trial with patient enrollment limited by budgetary constraints, no direct statistical significance tests can be performed.

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    Awards & recognition

    • U S  News and World Report badge recognizing UCSF as part of its 2024-2025 Honor Roll

      Among the top hospitals in the nation

    • Rated high-performing hospital for acute kidney failure

    • "Elite" rating (highest) among designated programs of excellence

    • 325-2x

      Kidney transplants performed each year

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    • Insurance authorization, if required
    • Doctor's referral, if required
    • Recent test results related to your condition
    • List of your medications, including dosages, plus any you're allergic to
    • List of questions you may have
    • Device or paper for taking notes

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      UCSF Division of Transplant Surgery Research

      The UCSF Division of Transplant Surgery conducts research aimed at expanding medication options, refining surgical techniques and improving methods of preventing transplant rejection.

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