Diabetes and kidney failure (a common diabetes-related complication) are very common in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Many local residents whose kidneys fail need dialysis treatments or transplants to stay alive.
Now, these patients can receive the specialized transplant and renal services they need close to home at The South Texas Transplant Center, located in McAllen Medical Center.
The South Texas Transplant Center is the only transplant center in the Rio Grande Valley. Since opening in 2007, surgeons have performed 35 kidney transplants and about 250 people are on the center's transplant waiting list.
"Our patients are doing extremely well," says Daniel "Rick" McLean, MD, Surgical Director at the center. "We have one of the lowest organ rejection rates in the country."
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