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Southern Florida Gets New Kidney Transplant Program
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -
November 15, 2000· by TNN Medical Reporter Virginia Baskerville
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A new kidney transplantation program has come to southern Florida.
On November 1, Daniel Shoskes, MD, performed the first adult kidney transplant in
Broward County at Cleveland Clinic Florida. The transplantation team is working with
41 additional patients who are ready for surgery.
"It is impressive that although the program is so new, we are already working with so
many patients for surgery; it demonstrates that there was a significant need for an
additional transplant program," said Dr. Shoskes. The nearest other kidney transplantation
program is in Miami, and others are located in Fort Myers, Orlando, and Tampa.
"Southern Florida has been clearly underserved in terms of kidney transplantation and
needed more than one transplant
center," said Harry K. Moon, MD, chief executive officer of Cleveland Clinic Florida.
The first kidney recipient at the clinic, a 42-year-old man, was listed in good condition two
days following surgery.
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