UC to shut down liver transplant program

[Guest guest]

The closure affects 37 patients currently on

the transplant wait list and another 45 in the screening process to determine

eligibility. It does not affect 255 patients who have

already had liver transplants but receive their follow-up care at UC .

The university began notifying patients

Thursday. They will be referred to three liver

transplant centers operating in the Bay Area, including UC San Francisco, Stanford University

and California Pacific Medical

Center. The

program will not shut down until all patients have made a transition elsewhere……..

http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2008/12/08/daily80.html?ana=from_rss

Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight - Whatever it

Takes!

Son Ken (34) UC 91 PSC 99, LTX 6/21 &

6/30 2007 @ Baylor/Dallas

[Guest guest]

Barb, Thank you for posting this information. I don't get a newspaper

and so did not know about it. This is devastating news for me because

my PSC is progressing and I hoped to get my transplant at UC ,

which is a short drive from my house. There are more patients affected

by this than the number mentioned in the article because there are

patients, like me who have not been referred for screening yet. Dr.

Bowlus has about 45 PSC patients in addition to patients with other

liver diseases. I just emailed him to see if he will be staying on at

UCD.

Because UCD was the only liver transplant center in the central

California organ procurement area, one could expect to get a liver match

while one's Meld was reasonably low. In San Francisco, patients have

to wait until their Meld is at least 24 before they get a transplant. I

know a PSC patient whose Meld was 40 before he got a liver at UC San

Francisco last year.

(Sacramento) dx PSC and UC 2001

[Guest guest]

Barb, Thank you for posting this information. I don't get a newspaper

and so did not know about it. This is devastating news for me because

my PSC is progressing and I hoped to get my transplant at UC ,

which is a short drive from my house. There are more patients affected

by this than the number mentioned in the article because there are

patients, like me who have not been referred for screening yet. Dr.

Bowlus has about 45 PSC patients in addition to patients with other

liver diseases. I just emailed him to see if he will be staying on at

UCD.

Because UCD was the only liver transplant center in the central

California organ procurement area, one could expect to get a liver match

while one's Meld was reasonably low. In San Francisco, patients have

to wait until their Meld is at least 24 before they get a transplant. I

know a PSC patient whose Meld was 40 before he got a liver at UC San

Francisco last year.

(Sacramento) dx PSC and UC 2001

[Guest guest]

Barb, Thank you for posting this information. I don't get a newspaper

and so did not know about it. This is devastating news for me because

my PSC is progressing and I hoped to get my transplant at UC ,

which is a short drive from my house. There are more patients affected

by this than the number mentioned in the article because there are

patients, like me who have not been referred for screening yet. Dr.

Bowlus has about 45 PSC patients in addition to patients with other

liver diseases. I just emailed him to see if he will be staying on at

UCD.

Because UCD was the only liver transplant center in the central

California organ procurement area, one could expect to get a liver match

while one's Meld was reasonably low. In San Francisco, patients have

to wait until their Meld is at least 24 before they get a transplant. I

know a PSC patient whose Meld was 40 before he got a liver at UC San

Francisco last year.

(Sacramento) dx PSC and UC 2001