The Miami Transplant Institute Offers the Miracle of Life

Miracles are made daily at the Miami Transplant Institute–an affiliation between Jackson Health System and UHealth—the University of Miami Health System.

As one of the world’s leading transplant centers, we provide children and adults with compassionate, skilled, and experienced care you can trust.

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About Our Transplant Programs

The Miami Transplant Institute offers life-saving transplant, support, and rehabilitation programs to children and adults facing organ failure—backed with the world-class resources of Jackson Health System and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

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Kidney Transplant

Saving more lives with our Living Donor Kidney Program and our Paired Kidney Exchange Program.
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Kidney-Pancreas and Pancreas Transplant

If complications from diabetes have led to kidney failure, these complex surgeries can save your life.
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Liver Transplant

Staying in the forefront of transplant medicine with new treatment options for patients of all ages.
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Intestinal Rehabilitation

Our multidisciplinary team saves lives by treating digestive tract disorders without transplants.
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Intestinal or Multivisceral Transplant

National leadership in treating disorders of the abdomen and intestinal tract.
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Heart Transplant or Ventricular Assist Device Program

Our team saves lives by implanting new organs and ventricular assist devices.
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Lung Transplant

Staying in the forefront of transplant medicine with new treatment options for patients of all ages.
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program

Our team saves lives by providing temporary support to failing hearts and lungs.

See The Lives We’ve Changed

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South Florida Woman Receives a Heart Transplant on Daughter’s Wedding Day

Reaching some of life’s major milestones hasn’t always seemed possible for 60-year-old Liliana Hernandez, who has been living on borrowed time for almost 20 years. As a great grandmother, grandmother, mother, and wife, she hoped for the day that her prayers would be answered.

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The Perfect Match: South Florida Teacher’s Life Saved by Living Donor

Tyra Starnes was shocked when her primary care doctor diagnosed her with chronic kidney disease. Up until that point, the 25-year-old West Palm Beach elementary school teacher felt healthy. However, as her kidneys continued to deteriorate, Starnes started feeling the effects of the disease.

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A Birthday Miracle: A New Heart Gives One Florida Man A Second Chance at Life

“When Harold arrived at the hospital, he was experiencing shortness of breath, and we quickly discovered he was in cardiogenic shock, which means his heart could not pump enough blood through his body,” Dr. Phancao said.

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A Mother’s Unconditional Love Gives Son a Fighting Chance to Receive a Life-saving Kidney Transplant

When Araceli Cantero Obregón was seven months pregnant, doctors in Nicaragua told her that her son Edgard Sequeira would have hydrocephalus, a condition in which excess cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) builds up within the ventricles of the brain.

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Miami Transplant Institute’s 500th Intestinal Transplant Recipient is a Young Woman From Arkansas

During her junior year of high school, Stephanie was thriving at being a healthy teenage girl. Unexpectedly, though, Jira began to have trouble keeping food down after meals.

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Meet Our Skilled Multidisciplinary Team

Our renowned transplantation surgeons and physicians provide life-saving care for even the most complex medical problems.

Our multidisciplinary team has deep experience with a full range of organ transplants, including heart, lung, heart-lung, kidney, pancreas, kidney-pancreas, liver, intestinal, and multivisceral transplants, as well as intestinal rehabilitation, and life-saving support for failing hearts and lungs.
Meet Our Team

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Meet Our Skilled Multidisciplinary Team

Our renowned transplantation surgeons and physicians provide life-saving care for even the most complex medical problems.

Our multidisciplinary team has deep experience with a full range of organ transplants, including heart, lung, heart-lung, kidney, pancreas, kidney-pancreas, liver, intestinal, and multivisceral transplants, as well as intestinal rehabilitation, and life-saving support for failing hearts and lungs.
Meet Our Team