When Mike Miranda’s only kidney began to fail, his sister, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia neurologist Dr. Caroline Miranda, stepped in as his living donor, giving him the gift of life.
In a rare procedure involving four patients, a surgical team at NewYork-Presbyterian completed a first-of-its-kind transplant in which a recipient got a new liver from a living donor, and their original liver — which did not work properly for them due to a metabolic disorder but was otherwise functional — was split to help two people.
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In a rare procedure last year, a multidisciplinary transplant team at NewYork-Presbyterian performed the state’s first heart, double lung, and liver transplant.